Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Tedious and Self Important

You have to really be interested in the author's self importance to enjoy this book. It grated on me on almost every page. Despite its subject, I found it unflinchingly cold and also, extremely boring. Maybe it was her point, but it's as though she's writing a academic text on grief and death ~ from quite a distance. Frankly, I could not finish it as I decided life is too short to force myself to finish any book this difficult to get through. The name dropping and "we were such a wonderful, powerful couple" gets so tedious I rolled my eyes more than a few times. The medical detail and quotes from other sources on grief do not make it any more interesting, though I hoped it would. I am surprised so many people liked this book. I guess it boiled down to the fact that I did not find the author likeable and couldn't swallow the writing style; so had little interest in what she had to say.