Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book reaffirms my stance not to read Fiction

I echo most of the bad reviews of this book. Long, drawn-out, thin-plotted and predictable. When I got to the end, I was more and more worried that it would end the way it did, AND IT DID! Ugh.Reading fiction is a risky venture. You can spend days with a book only to get to the end and find out it was a waste of time. Thanks Scott Smith for helping convince me that there aren't very many good story-tellers out there worth my time anymore.I'll stick with Non-Fiction. At least we know it was interesting enough for someone to put into print. Because "The Ruins" certainly wasn't.