Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: An Unnecessary Book

Originally, the manuscript mustn't have found a U.S./U.K. publisher, as is made obvious by the fact that it first appeared in German translation. Consequently, it wormed its way back stateside and Algonquin Books took mercy on it. The book is a cut-and-paste, Readers-Digest-Condensed-Books version of the solid biographies available for each and every woman treated here. The author has not added a shred of original research or insight. Bessie Smith's connection with Harlem was tenuous. She played, and recorded in, New York a few times, but never lived there. A much better choice would have been Mamie Smith - but that would have required research, see? The Queen of Greenwich Village, for instance, was a woman known as Romany Marie. Again, the author would have had to do her homework. And neither Bessie Smith nor Ethel Waters are anything to do with Bohemia. Thus, the reader is tricked by both the book's title and subtitle, as well as by a lazy author.