Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Who REALLY cares who wrote this book?

It doesn't matter who was behind this collection of stories, because it's just simply not all that good and incredibly derivitive of other/better writings.And, yes, it was published as fiction and doesn't claim anywhere on the dust jacket to be autobiographical--but if anyone who is even half aware of the writer and "his" supposed background, it mirrored what the author was telling journalists, magazines, writers, doctors, musicians, actors, agents, etc., as being based on actual events in "Leroy's" life which was supposedly being purged via writing. My god, this was a scam/hustle in the most fundemental sense. But if you really want to dive into the pool, you should at least acquaint yourself with the books most of this joke was borrowed from, i.e. anything by Dennis Cooper, some of Mary Gaitskill, and more than a dollop of Flannery O'Connor. The only difference is that those people were/are original and truly talented from the start.