Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bit off more than he can chew?

Mr. Mendelsohn sure does have an ambitious idea in this book, but it didn't succeed for me. If all the ideas he put forth were as deeply explored as his treatment of classical literature motifs at the beginning of the book, I would have loved it. It also would have been 3 times longer. As written, I find his ambition overshoots his action, and found this book more frustrating than anything else.