Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bleak

Yes, I know Proulx is an award winning author, but she just doesn't do it for me. POSTCARDS traces the lives of the Blood family, which early on becomes known mostly through postcards sent to each other. Eldest son Loyal leaves home in the mid-forties after accidentally killing his girlfriend. For 40 or 50 years he writes postcards to the family left behind, never with a return address. They can never let him know of the tragedies that befall the family, and the family never knows the real reason Loyal left home. Before this book I'd read Proulx's CLOSE RANGE, Wyoming Stories. I liked two stories in that book. THE BLOOD BAY, and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. Even with BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, the movie was better than the story. This is something I seldom find to be true of any literary work that is made into a movie. Proulx is a very "descriptive" writer. A lot of people love her...I am not one of them.