Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Gilead

I am very surprised and puzzled over all the praise that has been given this book. I found it to be turgid, slow moving and rather dull. Even though I am close to the age of the Minister and grew up in the same era as he did, I could not relate to him nor Gilead,Iowa at all. In fact I found him quite a wimp!! As for his so-called "wisdom",that,too,struck a wrong note with me. His philosophy is very simplistic; anyone with a knowlege of religion and/or philosophy will be quite impatient with the musings of our Minister.