Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: An article (or two) trying hard to be a book

Jim McManus' experiences playing in the WSP as a long-shot were riveting and would have made a wonderful magazine article. His coverage of the Binion trial, as well, would have made a good article. But instead of taking the prudent course and publishing them thus, McManus ties the two together on the premise of a number of absurd, overwritten parallels between poker and murder, interweaving pages upon pages *upon pages* of irrelevant subtext about his own life, self-destructive tendencies, family history, and wonderful, wonderful (am I sick yet of hearing about how wonderful she is?) and forbearing wife, Jennifer.Mc Manus' editor should have been demoted for allowing the number of divergent, run-on pages (chapters, even) that detracted from the two interesting main storylines. All wrapped together as the book is, it doesn't make for good reading unless you know which 60% to skip.