Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Into the Wild

I liked this book a lot, though it really is different from most books you'll read. As a non-fiction work, this book follows the life of Christopher McCandless through interviews with friends, family, and acquaintances. I can relate to this individual on multiple levels as he went to high school just down the road from me. He ran cross country in high school, as I did. He died in Alaska and I was born and raised there. Krakauer does a very good job of bringing to life someone that we actually know relatively little about. Chris's story is sad and yet poignant at the same time. It's hard not to respect not only his intellectualism, but his drive to understand the truth in life. While this ultimately cost him his life and is in retrospect the result of decisions few of us would ever make, it does strike a cord with me. This is one of the few stories that I actually find myself reflecting back on long after I finished reading the book.