Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Classic? for boys

Marryat is a bit disappointing to me, after O'Brien, Lambden, Woodman, et al., but no doubt true to its time, when this story was a great favorite of young men who wanted to escape to sea. Mr. Easy has an entirely too easy time of life for a real midshipman under sail, full of successful derring-do without any visible training or sail-handling to it, but thanks really to his practical and experienced Negro servant! I can see how young boys might have enjoyed this fast-moving story of endless adventures when it was written 140 years ago, but for me it lacks grit, sweat, and tears (perhaps the very reason it successfully recruited boys into the navy, as Parascandola avers). Maybe this is a valuable historical document from a real sea captain, moralizing from an outlook lacking in the more "politically correct, sensitive, and sexual" attitudes of modern authors, but as the "best" of Marryat's novels, I'll pass on the others.