Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Jester is real joke.

I can think of few things I've read in the last several years that were quite this bad. I commend my fellow reviewers who made it through 100 or even 200 pages of this [book] before giving up. I survived only 80.I can't find adjectives extreme enough to explain how hideous this book is. I am prompted to write a review because I found it insultingly bad. The writing doesn't even approach a 4th grade level. Each chapter consists of only two or three pages. And there are dime-store romance novels on the market that capture a historic setting better than "The Jester." Does "What flashed through my mind was..." strike you as an authenic phrase coming out of the mouth of a French inn-keeper in the year 1100?If you want a great historic fiction set in the middle ages, you must read Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. If you want a fun, quick, action-filled story for the beach try the new Da Vinci Code. Just avoid "The Jester" like....the plague.