Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Filler Material for Book 8

I was very dissapointed, to put it mildly. I have come to expect better things from Robert Jordan, and this book is not of his caliber. It was 600 pages of filler. Mat was never even looked at once! Incredible!The first half of the book was pointless plodding, and introduction of a slew of minor characters we don't need to know about that cloud the issue. The Forsaken had maybe one chapter combined in this book, everything else was so much politics.The second half got a little better, but not by much. It picked things up a bit more, with some surprises thrown in, but it mostly read like a prologue to the next book, especially coming up towards the end.All I have to say is, if Jordan's Book 9 isn't any better than this, you can count me as one less loyal reader, with one less favorite author.