Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Lost in the Minutia

What should be an interesting work about Spain's exploration and conquest of the New World turns into cumbersome and bloated work without focus. I have to agree with another reviewer who asked, "where is the editor?" Thomas repeatedly goes off on tangents and fills pages with unimportant information which makes reading the book a chore. It is well researched and footnoted, but Thomas fails to explain why all the facts he dumps into the book are important.