Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Hysterical, but sobering

After finishing this book I was sorry I hadn't read Haddon's first story. The man had me laughing out loud one minute and deep in thought the next. I wonder how many people would react as George Hall, the protaganist of the book, did when confronted with an unexpected lesion exactly upon retirement. Hall's fears may indeed be signs of madness but Haddon had me thinking that perhaps more of us are similarly inclined than we admit. I doubt very few would resort to self-surgery at the level described, but many of us do hack away at our problems without the proper tools. Haddon's description of Hall dealing with his wife's love affair was another example of Haddon being able to see beneath the veneers of social behaviors and make a sad situation humorous. All in all, I can't wait to go back and read his first book, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time."