Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: "Nothing" is right!

Kunzru reportedly received over a million dollars for this meaningless, overwritten bit of bilge that adds nothing to the impressively growing body of fine fiction about India, or by Indian authors, and after dumping it halfway through, I have to shake my head and wonder why.The book's prologue is the best part, there's an interesting beginning to the first section before the "hero," "The Impressionist" himself, gets thrown out onto the streets and into a series of truly picaresque adventures.First off, Pran is such a cipher as to be totally uninteresting and uninvolving, and there aren't any secondary characters to fill the gap. His first adventure is a truly tedious period in a minor political squabble. A great deal of this is devoted to sending up the ruling English class, all or which has been done better in a few hundred places, both in literature and on film.I haven't read anything lately that's been as big a waste of time and money as The Impressionist was.