Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellence in Amitav Ghosh's Work is the Rule

Widely-travelled and widely-read friends with a great deal of time spent in India first recommended Amitav Ghosh's writing to me, and one of these women is a writer of considerable excellence herself. Beginning with "Sea of Poppies" I was astounded at the breadth and depth of his research and at his extraordinary ability to maintain historical accuracy while weaving numerous individual's stories into a larger work of historical fiction. Each of the important characters is well-defined and realized.