Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: If you self-pity - read this book

This has to be one of the worst books I have ever read. The writing was tolerable at best - but the self-pity and incessant whining and accusing everybody but herself are what really sink this book. The book is basically a manifesto blaming everything that went wrong in her life on somebody else. And, I know why so many thought the movie was better than the book - there is not near as much self-apathy and self-pity because who would want to see 2 hours of somebody feeling sorry for themself? It makes her look better that she's forced into marrying Ray - rather than the exact oppisite (relayed in the book) that her parents tried to prevent her from marrying Ray because they said it that would ruin her life. I don't understand how Donofrio was a victim - as she would have you believe - when clearly the tragic events in her life were her own doing, nobody elses.