Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Unreadable

I bought this at Barnes and Noble because the jacket copy looked promising, but it was an empty promise. I gave up after about 70 pages. It took that long to get a clear inkling of what was going on, which is not much. More annoying was the constant challenge between characters, even characters who are otherwise friendly with one another. Johansen's characters always seem to be in challenge-mode. No statement, no matter how innocuous, seems to be accepted without a, "Yeah, but," or "Don't be such a jerk" sort of reply. That soon becomes old. Much of the dialogue is unreal anyway, but everyone seems to act like macho-man trying to leave a tough-guy impression. Not a fun read.