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Does it not trip your irony meter that you have cherry-picked one review from a site which overwhelmingly rates the book positively?
4.28 stars (which is almost exactly the same rating as _Kindred_ at 4.29)
Unfortunately, the person's bookshelf only has 19 books on it, so it's hard to get a sense of what they actually like, though I find some ratings inexplicable, and completely disagree w/ others, so all that I get from this specific review is that tastes differ.
My contention is that the book in question was groundbreaking in terms of content and context when it was written, and that it is well-regarded enough by a sufficiently large quantity of people that it merits inclusion in a list of classics. A review average essentially the same as the later, and very specific in terms of content/message novel which you put forward would seem to support regarding it as a classic.
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