Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Past country to (too) crude

Purchasing the book for one of my children based on its having won the Newberry medal was a mistake.I decided to read it myself.The author certainly has an entertaining readable style. However, as a reader I felt I was gradually being dragged down a path that wasn't apparent at the beginning of the book. Sort of like having an acquaintance with brilliant storytelling skills, who carries off a progressively more off-color tale - by the end, you wish you hadn't heard the beginning.I stopped reading on page 106: where the postmistress suddenly runs naked down the stairs in front of the grandmother, teenaged girl and boy, etc.Not for me, and not for my kids.