Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: this story has beenwritten at least 1000 times

After reading and loving the wonderful "Secret Life Of Bees", I simply could not wait to read "The Mermaids Chair", fortunatley for me I did not waste time sitting in a comfy chair with tea but rather it occupied my time while driving across country, the Kansas scenery was more interesting and less predictable. If this is the best Monk KIdd can do after "Bees" then she should spare us all and quit now. My big questions are 1. How many times does this plot line need to be written and unfortunately published? 2. Why is it authors can come up with no other way for a middleaged women to "find herself" than to have an affair with an unavailabe man? Dissapointing? This book was a waste of the hopefully recycled paper it was printed on.