Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Horrid writing

I picked up this book only because of a comparison to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which I remembered was a thoroughly engrossing read. This book does not come close. The writing is painfully sophomoric, the dialogue is pretentious and unnatural. Even worse, plot points are muddled and yet as a reader, I found myself not caring about the story, the mystery or any of the characters. The ending is a wink towards Hollywood as spoofed in Robert Altman's The Player.