Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing short stories from otherwise much-loved and well-respected authors

I was rather disappointed by these stories, and that's reflected in how long it took me to plod through this book: almost three weeks, instead of a day or two like usual. It didn't capture me as I had hoped, and I was put off by all the verbal sparring between the characters. What happened to the genteel Southern character? In fact, there wasn't anything particularly Southern about these stories except that they were set in cities in the South - I kept looking for more of the charm that the South is so well-known for. Perhaps my expectations were too high because of my past experience with these wonderful authors. I think the middle story, A Night in Paradise by Heather Graham, was the better story in this otherwise weak collection.