Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: pointless

How does Bob Woodward get away with writing a book without a thesis when any freshman in college would be flunked? This was a pointless exercise in political gossip - and most of it, especially the tedious recapitulation of the Lewinsky affair, was not even new. Strangely and unforgivingly, Woodward hints at the pointed criticism of scandal-soaked press coverage and does not offer much of an opinion. It amazes me that he would not have anything to say. Perhaps it shouldn't; perhaps he's too caught up in beltway insider gossip to bother thinking about the significance of what he reports in the name of Truth. He's just stuck on boorish autopilot, more a part of the "establishment" that he once tried to bring down than ever.