Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Better on screen

I have wonderful memories of Tom Poston in the movie Zotz! I looked forward to this book to re-experience that on the page, but it dragged and just missed the mark for me. I guess I'm spoiled by the movies.The story developed with an alluring hook of a magical notion from the ancient past. Once this was fleshed out, the story just hit the mud. All I remember is the tedium of this mundane character trying every avenue of government he could think of to get someone else to take it off his hands. Boring!Every child dreams of having that kind of power at their disposal.It ends up in the anti-climax of water drifting into the gulf after a thousand mile journey down the Mississippi - diffuse and anonymous.