Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Tepid

Typical Clarke novel -- long on high concept, short on characthers. Most characters are over the top caricatures -- the greedy industrialist (and a foreigner, to boot), the brilliant driven scientist having battles of faith, the innocent (dopey) second son (ok, they made him that way), the woman journalist (who's also good in the sack), the FBI guy, and the .... (don't want to give everything away).Baxter (who apparently did most of the writing) has done better.