Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ho Hum!

Books by the Pournelle/Niven team are generally among my favorites in the SciFi genre. Unfortunatly this is one of their few real "duds".Written as a sequel to Legacy of Heorot , the colonists planned investigation of the mainland from the island based colony started out as a great basis for a story. The "old Grendel" (obviously mutated) interaction with the exploring colonists borders on the absurd. My first thought after finishing the book was "why did I even bother--what a disappointment"!I really enjoyed the first book "Legacy of Heorot" , but this second volume is but a pale shadow of a good first effort.