Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Really lame and thoroughly confusing

It has taken me several years to read this and I'm still not finished. The "scholarly" writing is confusing at best and totally lost me at worst. As much as I try, I cannot find anything about this book making it worth recommending to others. Goodrich's theory (theories?) rambles all over the place, she goes on and on about phonetics and linguistics to the point where even the most dedicated reader must be bored to tears, and it makes me wonder exactly what the point is that we are supposed to get from the book. If I had a professor who rambled like Goodrich I'd probably have dropped out of the course in the first week from boredom.