Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Hong Yawn

I have read all the other fine reviews and at the risk of being the skunk at the picnic I have to say it: This book was dull. D-u-l-l. An interesting, fascinating subject written by a man who has spent way too many years in politics,associating with way too many bureaucrats. Frankly, he should have had a ghostwriter or some such to do this up for him; that, or he should have written a biography about his years as the last governor of Hong Kong. Now that would have been some story...but,alas, what we have instead is nearly dry as dust and only half as interesting; "where the minnows talk like whales", as Faulkner would say. This could have been such a good book-- given the subject matter- but alas... So I give it two stars: One for effort, and one for its ability to cure insomnia.