Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Portrait of an "ordinary" killer

I have read this book when it was published 4 or 5 years ago. It was Anne Rice (!) that praised the novel in the New York Times Review talking about great fiction and regreting that modern fiction was poorly written (she has since denied herself by writing poor executed popular fiction for teenagers). Anyway, the point is that this book feels like nothing you've read about the subject -serial killer- before. It is more like an inside monologue. Don't expect cheap thrills, or killer-on-the-loose-page-turner.Sometimes weird, often hypnotizing,The Minus Man deserves to be successful. I hope that the movie coming out (good or bad) will give this book a second chance.