Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A long stare into a dead eye.

The first thing any review of a novel by Cormac MacCarthy mentions is always the language. So to get it out of the way: Suttree is a dizzying verbal adventure. Even if the subject were dull as dirt, McCarthy's prose would make this novel worth reading. He's one of the finest American writers, with a diction somewhere between Faulkner and God. If you've read him, you know what I mean.But the story of Suttree is also a damned fine one. McCarthy's eyes are wide open, and in this novel, his perceptions are focussed unblinkingly on a man, in all his failings, and a river, in all its crazed ugliness. At times, the novel is grotesque, at times startlingly lyrical. Usually, both.Read this book. Then read _Blood Meridian_. You'll be glad you did. --Steve Marsden