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

As a Grant admirer who has read McFeely's prize-winning and somewhat critical biography and Grant's own Memoirs, I was eagerly looking forward to Perret's book. I could not finish it (and my reactions should be taken accordingly-maybe my complaints would have vanished in the last half). I will describe my reaction because I do not see here any other similar one. I felt the book repeatedly presented its material with a gratuitous snide spin, what seemed to me to be a sophomoric effort to be clever at the expense of the subject that seems entirely out of place in such a book. One example appears on page 45 (hardcover): While courting Julia Dent, Grant heard a rumor that there was a dangerous rival for her affections. Perret reports that the crisis passed because there was no rival. "If there were any other serious suitors for Julia Dent's plump little hand, no record of them survives."