Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Absolutely Terrible

After months of trying to deal with how terrible these pencils are, I finally threw them all away.They are impossible to sharpen because the lead is broken inside the wood shaft. The wood shaft on half of them was brittle and would splinter upon attempt to sharpen.I tried several sharpeners thinking the blade might be dull. All sharpeners produced the same result so I decided to try a variety of other pencils, standard and colored. All sharpened perfectly.Bottom line is unless you love activities of futility, get another, any other, colored pencil.