Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pretentious and tedious

This is one of those tedious self-published books that, fortunately, will never reach an audience much beyond the author's close friends and acquaintances.It isn't any good. It's too long and it's over-written. It reads like Kraft's Amazon review of his own book (posted here at the time I write this): confusing, pointless, and not at all funny. There is throughout a sort of painful striving after humor that drives the reader to a lot of cringing. There is also throughout a great deal of pointless obfuscatory language, which was perhaps meant to substitute for plot. It's not clever but you have the sense Kraft really, really wanted it to be.