Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Less is not more

Faced with a long road trip and holding a love of Irish history, I took the CD version of The Princes of Ireland with me. While the reader does a wonderful job with the changing Irish accents, Dublin vs. Leinster, Ulster vs. Munster, educated vs. "regular folk", the abridged version is even harder to follow than some have described the written. Just when you start to get to know a character, they're gone and you've jumped ahead a few hundred years and the ties between the stories are thin.Rutherfurd follows some of the styles of James Michener in that he takes a geographical place and weaves the people and history in and around it. But it doesn't work here and while I love the sound of the Irish voices, the story leaves me wishing Michener had written about Ireland.