Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Best Reed bio so far

This remains the best bio of Reed. Don't be discouraged by the three-star average rating, which is simply the result of fans' resentment at a critical examination of their hero.This book view of Lou Reed is not pretty, but is unsurprising to anyone familiar with his history and his own account of himself in interviews, where he regularly appeared as self-aggrandising and insecure (although without seeming to realise it ...)Anyway, his character deficiencies needn't undermine your appreciation of his music.The book has some marvellous anecdotes and insights, for example, relating to the woman who inspired several classic VU songs and an amusing attempted interview by Lou Reed of Vaclav Havel. (Clue: the rock star thought himself more important than a mere head of government. Havel terminated the interview as Lou was clearly too incompetent to perform it.)