Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Book is as dry as the desert road to Turketsan

I only read about 100 pages, and I'm not sure how I even got that far. It's not that the book is poorly written, for lack of a better phrase, nor is it that Lattimore's trip was boring. Maybe it was, can't really put my finger on it.But Lattimore's account of the trip is just excruciating to read! For starters, Lattimore jumps around from one topic to another in the same chapter, and many times goes off on these tangents, all without any seemingly good reason.For a book about an explorer's account of a trip, Sven Hedin's MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER is much more well written and will keep you much more suspense.