Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Too much 'creativity' for its own good

The Thin Place tries too hard to be creative, and in the process misses out on a fairly important aspect of a novel: being fun to read. The book is about a bunch of people in a small town who all do seemingly pointless things, in which characteristic they are closely mirrored by the novel's plot.My main problem with the novel is that it is simply not enjoyable. The author inserts so many witty ovservations on nature and 'creative' media (police reports, diaries, astrology columns, etc.) that at a certain point it becomes more of a scrapbook than a novel. This may be creative, but it doesn't make for a good read. At the same time the book is so packed with metaphors and similes that it becomes absolutely claustrophobic.All in all, can't recomment this book - it's more effort to read than it's worth.