Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: 2 1/2* Too Long For Its Content

Nicholson Baker is a very original writer, and he excels here at writing about a young girl's observations and fantasies in the third person. The main problem is that the myriad observations-- divided into 54 short excerpts-- fail to advance a plot, although we do get deeper into Nory's head. It just gets very tedious after awhile.I would recommend this as a book from which to read snippets, but Baker would have done better to write a shorter book, or to have some semblance of a plot. Although the style and characters are quite different, try "Zazie Dans Le Metro" for another, more interesting look at young female adolescense. It's offbeat and ultimately more satisfying.