Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I thought it would never end -- utterly tedious.

I'm not sure who Byatt had in mind as a prospective readership for this novel. I read a lot and am not a stranger to the world of literary criticism, but this tome was virtually unbearable once I hit about the halfway point. The first half was somewhat interesting and I had high hopes. But as the book quote-unquote progressed, there just was more and more nothin'. Endless, lengthy quotations and, frankly, boring observations. I'm not sure I have anything of value to comment on, specifically, but I would like to forewarn readers: this is one of the most trying, pretentious, uninteresting books I have ever read, and I think it would not likely appeal to the vast majority of readers. It could conceivably appeal to lit crit buffs but even then. Yuck.