Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A "True" Story?

This story purports to be true, and, undoubtedly, some of it is. But how much? And what? Much of the material is obviosly fictionalized, as when the author reports verbatim conversations that he was not a party to, and, obviously, nobody transcribed. The situation isn't helped by the author's failure to provide any dates, his vagueness about places, and his failure to account for large periods of Modoc's life, or her trainer's.As several reviewers have noted, the author is no literary stylist. The writing can be embarassingly bad. The New Age philosophizing shows little depth--the reader is told, for example, that one must walk through the valley of life, and that the past is a source of strength.Too bad. The author is obviously a caring, compassionate man, who loved Modoc deeply. But that does not qualify him as a writer or thinker. The reader is ultimnately left with a sense of his emotions being toyed with because of the impossibility of sorting out truth from fiction.