Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: a sterile, clinical presentation, indeed

Published in 1988, this is fundamentally a textbook-like tome with little direct application to the daily joys and trials of marriage and family life. It is well footnoted and indexed, though marriage and divorce are fundamentally seen as "choices" and there are no index entries for "vows," "commitment," or "fun."There is no heart to this book and no information useful for the establishment of a healthy marriage and no information for correction in times of difficulty. (It may never have occurred to the authors that married folks have far more sex than the unmarried.) All in all, quite sterile--somewhere between an anatomy/physiology text and veterinarian studies.