Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Take Oprah out of the Picture

I don't think your feelings towards Oprah & her bookclub should have anything to do with your feelings towards The Corrections. I have read many of Oprah's selections & have liked about 50%. I wish she had not nominated this book, only so people's reviews would not be muddled up with their feelings for her. I'll get off of that soapbox now and move on to the book itself. I read this book because I love family saga's where you get to really know the characters & care about them. I love getting to the point where they feel like they are your friends. I sure didn't feel this way about The Corrections. I didn't like one single character, found them boring & pretentious, & felt it was a waste of time being with them. I'm shocked it won such prestigious awards, I thought it was poorly written, which even that I can forgive, but I can't forgive such unlikeable, dysfunctional characters, and as you can tell by my one star rating, all I can say is, The Corrections is a loser.