Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Silly, Poorly Done

I have to say I'm glad that this was a gift and not something I spent money on. I read a lot of fiction, some gay some more mainstream, and there is a class of gay fiction that is published and praised simply because of content, without much attention paid to literary quality. CHRISTOPHER is such a book. It reads like a student thesis project, primarily because of the absolutely convoluted and clunky structure. Didn't [Mr.] Burnett have an editor? There is much potential in the story (albeit it a bit trite), but the novel suffers from a lack of cohesion, thin character development, and some downright silly sequences that should have ended up on the "cutting room floor." Edit, edit, edit.