Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Inflated Opinion of His Own Place in American Letters

Updike seems to have an inflated opinion of his own place in American Letters. He is not, and will never be, an essential figure in the pantheon of American writers - as, for example, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville and Twain are. He is not a first-rate critic as, for example, James Agee and Randall Jarrell are.As far as his dissing Tom Wolfe goes, Wolfe need not worry - his legacy is assured. In the 60's, he gave us "radical chic". In the 80's, he gave us the phrase "The Me Decade" and his classic account of the space program, "The Right Stuff", to say nothing of his spectacular fiction debut, "Bonfire of the Vanities". Now, he has given us "A Man in Full", a worthy successor to "Bonfire", though totally different. Tom Wolfe is The Man. He has his fingers on the pulse of American society like no other writer, and he is a great storyteller to boot.