Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring!

This book reads like a lecture, and no wonder--Wagstaffe teaches a university speech class. The text brings back the horrors of the most soporific lectures you've endured in school, as Wagstaffe drones on about the "three Ms of good storytelling" ("It must be meaningful. It must be memorable. It must be moving.") and then moves on into the even more enthralling "ABCs of good storytelling" ("A for Apt, B for Brief, C for Chronological").Then there are unintentional howlers, like this advice on giving a eulogy: "The fundamental rule...Do not speak ill of the dead." Well, duh!Maybe this stuff works when you've got a captive audience of students who need a good grade to satisfy the requirements for their degree. But here in the real world, it'll put most people to sleep. I feel that the money I spent on this book was wasted.