Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Inspired a Year of Reading Picaresque Novels

No one writes as lyrically and humorously as TC Boyle. I love his sentences that set you up for a corkscrew twist of phrase at the end. Although World's End might be my favorite, simply because it reflects the local history of where he grew up and where my family has always lived, Mungo Park was a book I suggested to my book club. The little prim ladies were appalled. I loved their recoil. Anything that suggests vulgarity, let alone sex, is frowned upon. The one club member who enjoyed it, joined me in pursuing a year of reading nothing but picaresque novels, with main characters as compulsive, frustrated, naive and imperiled as Mungo.