Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: MORE PLOD THAN PLOT

I have been listening to between 20 and 30 books on tape a year for the past several years, and this is the first one I have been unable to finish. I managed to get through the History of Rome and have varied from Stephen King to Stephen Ambrose to Stephen Hawking. BUT, I could not get through this one. There simply is no plot, just tedium. You know the book is overwritten when you are constantly conscious of the words the author is using rather than rather absorbing the text in imagery. I did not read Donna Tartt's first book but wish I had not wasted the time on the second. I simply cannot see how anyone could find this work enjoyable, but "to each his own"...