Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A cartoon epic

The book is too extravagant. The word play is often totally baseless (such as dung-lotus for Padma), although Western readers may not be knowledgable enough about the background to know that, and the racy plot has scenes like in a cartoon book. Very clever but certainly not literature that will stand the test of time. Rushdie's `Satanic Verses' is a much better novel.