Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Extraordinarily mean-spirited book

What an extraordinarily mean-spirited book. What could have been a light hearted nostalgic look at American culinary culture in the 1950s comes off as a rather nasty, unfunny sneer at ordinary middle class people and the food they ate. The reproductions of the advertisements are of a deliberately poor quality and are then lambasted for the funny colors. One would suppose that the color quality of a fifty year old magazine advertisement might suffer over time. This books leaves a bad taste in your mouth in more than one way.