Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: bizarre, depressing

I have read this book and yet I am still trying to figure out what the author was trying to get across. The bookd just left me with a somewhat depressed, glad-it-is-over feeling. I grew up in a small town in ohio and yes, there are some weirdos there just like any other town or city, no more no less. With that in mind, I did not get any kind of a "message" from the book--unless it would be to avoid small Ohio towns because of the weirdos. The book was not written in an enjoyable, entertaining fashion, so I don't think entertainment was the intent. As for being a "social commentary" on the times or a "snapshot" of Ohio history--I surely hope not--this town is out of the norm, not a representation of it. This book is just a schizophrenic collection of rather bizarre, boring people with no philosophical or historical point, no entertainment, no social commentary, not even amateur "reporting". Strange.