Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: If you liked George Saunders, forget this

If you surfed here via a recommendation link from a George Saunders collection, don't be fooled by the descriptions. This book of short stories bears little relation to Saunders in either style or substance. Derby's m.o. is to describe people, objects and events from a slightly skewed and overly literal point of view. This apparently "satirical" approach works for perhaps one or two stories but soon becomes tiresome and hard going thereafter.