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

I should have been warned by the TPM novelization, which used a good fantasy author to absolutely no effect. I have never read Salvatore's other work--to judge by his reputation, it can't possibly be as bad as this. The book is limp, full of errors, botched characterizations, and villains that are straight out of Ming the Merciless. Just awful. Did the publisher know it was bad? Sure they did, because perhaps the only good section of the book was the one they chose to excerpt on the net and in print. They imagined, I suppose, that quality didn't matter, because hype is all. Wrong again. A dire beginning for the NJO.