Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I so want to like it but...

I don't like this book. I want to like it, I am trying to like it, and having paid good money for it I don't want to give up on it easily. But so far I am failing badly. I should like it - an intelligent book filled with beautiful prose and original ideas rather than tired cliché. However, it is just such hard work. There are too many characters and too little character building, so that I find I can hardly remember from one reading session to the next who they are or what they have been doing. The plot seems to jump around with so little flow that it is hard to feel involved or to care about the story. In many ways it is similar to Martin's Ice & Fire books - an original fantasy world of huge scope, of light and shade rather than black and white, many characters and numerous plot threads, and mature writing. However, though Martin's story managed to hook me from the first chapter, Erikson has so far left me cold. I'll persevere, but...