Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ageing AlterEgo rants

This book was a gift to me, and I was excited by it. Then I started reading. The first chapter was totally engaging and I expected to really enjoy it. Then the rants started. Others have characterized this as philosophizing, but I don't think it deserves such a complimentary description. The book is not a novel, but a collection of lectures by an ageing woman who has apparently lost her writing touch, is intensely worried about her mortality, and frequently in the company of people who suffer from the same problem, and have "sold out" to the lecture circuit. Sounds like the author to me. When I pick up a novel, I actually would like to experience good character development and at least a little plot. Philosophy and theology are well discussed in many novels. This isn't one of them.