Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Badly written

After reading the other reviews I am apparently very much in the minority, but I found this book to be not well written at all. I only got through the first 100 or so pages and then gave up. The book is full of tortured prose which lectures us for paragraph after paragraph about the protagonists' feelings, reactions, memories, etc. The author also has an annoying habit: when the plot calls for a character to say something clever, he or she comes out with something fairly lame, but the other characters are dumbstruck with admiration. After this happened for the tenth time I finally stopped reading in frustration. Reading this makes me long for Ursula K. LeGuin, whose understated prose *shows* you what the characters are thinking and feeling rather than *telling* you.