Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: True colours

I have to admit, most books irritate me. Although the writing may be beautiful and the ideas and events interesting, the characters seldom seem like real people, not people the way I experience them. So, a friend gave me this book for my birthday and of course I dutifully began to read it. She always gives me interesting books, albeit populated with irritating simulacrums of real people. And then this book instantly captured me. I was spell-bound. Not so much because of the plot - though I found that absorbing -- but because I felt I was being spoken to by a real person, and that every character that Reinhardt described was also a real person. I kept waiting in dread for a false note, but none ever occurred. The author is an acute observer of people, with no sentimentality, no pretense, but somehow with enormous warmth and sympathy. Also, he's very funny. I can hardly wait to read another one of his books -- but can it possibly be as good?