Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Get to the point, Ms Tartt

I have to agree with most of the reviews for this novel. I was thrilled to pick it up for the first hundred pages or so. Ms. Tartt sets up the story perfectly for an interesting story--but did she deliver? No! The author drops the ball by going into painstaking detail of houses, objects, peripheral characters--and most of all, dull dialogue that has nothing to do with the main plotline. Three hundred pages later, you will be skimming page after page wondering if she will get to the point. Worse yet, the murder that is waiting to be solved in the meantime, unfolds predictably, without much suspense or twists.