Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Poorly repackaged Tolkien

This book is not only a blatant reworking of LOTR, it is not even enjoyable reading. Eddings' style is simplistic, the dialogue is rudimentary, the plot is predicatble and the characters are dull. Couple this with the obvious lack of originality and you have a pretty dismal reading experience here. I forced myself to finish the book and was glad to finally put it down. I don't recommend this book and was so unimpressed that I plan not to read any more of Eddings' work.