Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Smug, egotistical drivel

I bought this book because I'd read positive reviews of it. Gopnik immediately informs us of his stellar New Yorker connections, and no doubt some arms must have been twisted in book criticland. The personality which emerges from this collection is of someone who has floated up to his level without much evidence of sensitivity to or knowledge of his subject.