Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Far from King's best efforts

Realizing there is a lucrative market for this genre of writing and thus ample reward for churning out books like "Desperation", I nonetheless am disappointed that there wasn't more substance and depth...especially when compared to King's great early novels. To my thinking everything about this book is thin (well, except for the excessive number of pages generated by large margins, large fonts, and plenty of blank pages, all the better to justify its hefty list price, I suppose)... the plot, the characters, it just has a feeling of being churned out rather mindlessly. I think it's one of the worst, if not *the* worst pieces King has produced. Dare I hope there is another Stand, The Dead Zone, The Shining, in him to write? One can hope, at least, there aren't more Desperations.