Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring, plotless, derivative, annoying...save your money

Being a Gibson fan, I was looking forward to Idoru. Gagh, what a waste. Throughout the entire book I kept wanting to chuck it. There's nothing new here, and the rehash is of substantially lesser quality than Gibson's earlier fiction. The plot is unoriginal and plodding; the characters are *very* poorly developed, even for Gibson (I didn't give a damn about any of them, except maybe Blackwell the incidental bodyguard); and the "style" (if you can call it that) was cheap, flashy, substanceless, and very derivative. The silly tense-switching device Gibson used was amateurish and fell completely flat -- he should read Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress to see how to play with grammar convincingly. Blech, this book was an insult. Gibson must've needed the bucks in a hurry, or something. If you're not a Gibson fan, skip it; and *especially* if you're a Gibson fan, skip it and spare yourself the disappointment.