Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Utterly moronic "mystery"

Until I went searching in the library a couple of weeks ago for "New England mysteries", I'd never heard of Parnell Hall or his Stanley Hastings mysteries. It is rare that I consider a book a complete waste of time to have read, but such is the case with "Cozy". I found the dialogue, the characters, the "plot", the logic/illogic of the police and PI's sleuthwork ... all utterly maddening and absurd. At best, the book could stave off extreme boredom and provide a few moments of very mild amusement. At worst, the crime is not within the book, but the book itself. The four "glowing" reviews that precede mine completely baffle me and were surely written by Hall's family and/or publishing staff. Sorry Parnell/Stanley.