Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Awful. Bloated and Boring

Ugh. His earlier books have been so full of tight pacing and spirit and relevance. But this one invites the flip-through of -- no exaggeration -- half the pages as totally irrelevant to what is meaningful in the book. Dialog is slack. Context is beaten over the head until you are numb with it. And what is the context supposed to be? It feels like a historical novel he wrote because he felt he had to, not because it was meaningful to the present day.The only salvation is the main characters, who are well drawn and complex.But that is dim salvation in a grossly overwritten book like this one. Buy all of his previous books, but save yourself on this one.