Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The Worst Novel I Have Ever Read

This is, without a doubt, the worst commercially published novel I have ever read. The characters are wooden, the writing is stilted. The action flails around, going nowhere for long stretches. Example of the bad writing: The narrator's voice in the novel (third person omniscient) tells us about one of the characters, that she was "fourteen, going on twenty." Now mind you, I don't mean that a character said that in dialogue. The NARRATION said that. Using hackneyed cliche's like that is what I call bad writing. I can't believe that this book is still in print and was actually made into a movie! Spare yourself!