Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Will it ever end or can he wrap it up?

I'm sorry, maybe it is my ignorance, but I found this book very choppy and boorish and difficult to get through. I didn't like the way it jumped to the Civil War scenes near the end though I understand the purpose. I will give Pearl credit for mentioning "post traumatic stress syndrome" and "civil war" together which I'm sure was a reality for many Civil War veterans even though the syndrome didn't come into vogue until after the Vietnam war. Why is Longfellow made out to be such a hero while Oliver Wendall Holmes and James Russell Lowell have a proper amount of human weakness? The character Nicholas Rey didn't seem to fit into the time of the novel. The mystery got lost in all the long drug out scenes of Dante Club meetings and the following of endless suspicious characters with dead-end conclusions. It was messy even though it most likely involved a lot of research. I think I'll skip the Poe mystery.