Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Terrible the first time, but it almost grows on you

When I first read this book, I thought it was the worst thing I had ever read. But thinking it over, I realize it does have some good points, and I give Lowenthal credit for trying. I htink the thing that bothered me the most was the overuse of metaphors-and bad ones at that. The book is full of them! I agree with the other reviewer in that it should have been written in the first person. The third person pov takes this intensely personal story and makes it into a movie of the week sort of deal. You can't get into the characters heads, understand their motives. I also found the ending to be a little bit too neat and tidy. After hundreds of pages of arguments and strife, Jacob and Jonathan suddenly just patch things up with hardly any discussion or adressing the issues between them. Again, it's like a movie of the week. Lowenthal has a lot of potential-I hope he realizes it on his next work.