Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: unreadable, like most of the work of this writer

I have never understood the carryings on about Gunther Grass. I am a scholar of German literature and I've always found Grass just about unreadable, except for the novelle CAT AND MOUSE (Katz und Maus). The work has always struck me as somehow fascinated by the very fascism it wants to decry, and this novel is but another example of Grass' strange and -- as we know now -- unexpressed guilt-ridden post-ww2 narration. Sorry, folks, but you're better off with the equally insane writer Peter Handke, himself a problematic political figure, but he writes with integrity and unflinching honesty, and frankly, he's a better writer, as is the underrated (in this country at least) Heinrich Boll.