Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Stereotypes Abound

This book served as a distraction on a long and bumpy plane flight, but otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten much past Mary Dodd's train journey "out West." How much harder this book would have been to write had our heroine's small group not included such a fine array of the ethnic stereotypes that have succored the authors of potboilers down the years: the faded Southern Belle complete with lapdog (that her Cheyenne mate, amazingly, presumably feeds and shelters), the lumpy and warm-hearted Germanic (Austrian) madchen, the regal black woman, the felonious Irish twins, the mannish British woman... Oh, and the almost impenetrable "accents"... surely they wouldn't have been necessary had there been any meaningful characterization. I'm sorry: this is just not a good book. But, Mr. Fergus, you're probably not a bad writer when you write about what you know -- which certainly doesn't include women of any era, much less of the nineteenth century.