Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not bad, but elitist

I feel Ondaatje's book is an interesting way to give a history lesson, especially to us (you know, we brazenly pompous Americans living in a morally bereft culture who really don't know anything about our own history - the stories of our ancestors and their exploitation at the hands of our ruthless, capitalist leaders, not just the Founding Fathers), which is odd considering he wants our $. Gee, Mr. O, can I sit at your knee while you dispense your wisdom?Give me a break.I was actually going along with this story, but I got sick of O's characters doing totally incongruous and unbelievable things (wait to you get to the end). You can't sacrifice this much realism for the sake of getting your point across - and I know the whole point is O saying "look - see how people don't do things they're expected to?" But, again, give me a break - too heavy in political overtones that make me feel that O should stick to poetry.