Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Writing Tripe at an Age When One Should Know Better

The dull musings of a middle-aged, white man who believes _ or at least has convinced a publisher _ that his own petty shortcomings and personal behavior concern America at large.I'm guessing Mr. Awbrey reaches deep inside and before the finish is able to drown his Melancholy in a newly discovered reservoir of self-approval found in the conventional ways, although I can't be certain because I couldn't make myself read that far. The more genuine but less likely possibility is that he remains hopeless at book's end. Portions of the book will interest several current or former Kansas people whose names are in it.