Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Worst Form of "Literary" Torture I've Ever Experienced

I recently was asked to read this "book" for a class, and I nearly died trying. There are numerous passages in this book that are inexcusable, such as "Peoples of the Republic, tumbling dominoes, maintaining the equilibrium of the Dingdong by the ever encroaching Doodah" (Herr 20). Later on, Herr graciously begins to use descriptive, specific language and something to grasp onto, but by then it is too late. _Dispatches_ is suitable as a screenplay, but that's about it. The fallacy of imitative form is alive and well in the first 100 pages of Herr's embarrasing attempt at writing, but all it does is make you squint and moan through vague, nondescript sentences. Read Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," instead.