Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Highly disappointing with a ludicrous ending!

The Red Dragon thoroughly intrigued me and left me eager to read Silence of the Lambs. That was equally as good. I was therefore eagerly awaiting the advent of Hannibal and rushed to buy the hard copy. What a disappointment! All the characters disintegrated into ridiculous caricatures of their former selves. What was Thomas Harris attempting to do? Destroy himself along with his characters? He has, of course, set himself up to write another sequel. Who in the world would waste time and money reading it? How unfortunate that no one appeared to critique this book before it went to final publishing--perhaps with some major rewriting Harris would have been able to redeem himself!