Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Elmore Leonard's first yawner

I've read quite a few of Leonard's books and enjoyed them all until "Be Cool". This one lacked the suspenseful plotting and picturesque if not quite psychologically deep characterization that make his other books so fun. And while most of Leonard's books have some of the same elements (his protagonists and damsels in distress all seem to be cut from the same cloth), "Be Cool" copies plot elements from "Get Shorty" without remorse. Maybe Leonard was trying to play games with the concept of the sequel as one reviewer suggested, but if so the joke falls flat. Pity.