Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Do you enjoy reading soap operas?

Ms. Binchy is a good story-teller and a "could-be better" writer than what she has shown in this book. I have read quite a few of her previous books and enjoyed The Lilac Bus and Silver Wedding, especially.Unfortunately Ms. Binchy succumbed to the modern-day and, far too prevalent, "paid by the number of words written" syndrome. Having struggled through more than 400 of its 500+ pages, I do plan to finish this book. I'll at least credit Ms. Binchy with her above-average storytelling ability. As she tells her story involving a multitude of characters, she also turns the story into a soap opera: who's having an affair with whom, will the abused wife get away from under her husband's alcoholic rage .... Like any good soap opera, "we want to know"! And like any good soap opera, the stories must go on and on!