Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing and unnecessary

Merrill published his autobiography, Once More from the Beginning, in 1965, with a different ghostwriter. When I picked up this book, I wondered why he had switched ghostwriters. After reading it, I wondered no longer. Approximately the first half of this disappointing, rather trashy book is simply an inferior recycling of the same autobiographical material in Once More from the Beginning. The remainder is a grab-bag of anecdotes, vignettes, smutty stories, all written in a breathlessly breezy, glib, gossipy, frivolous style that is long on tawdry titillation and short on class, taste, and substance--and sometimes believability as well. Anyone interested in Merrill's life and career should read Once More from the Beginning; it's no masterpiece but it's a lot better than this redundant, unnecessary dud.