Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Worst book I have read in a long time

This book was terrible. I am glad I checked it out from the library. I knew it was bad when I had finished half of the book and skipped to the end, realized that it wasn't going anywhere and returned it. The writing is horrible. The characters were flat, and very uninteresting. The plot was contrived and to be honest I really didn't care what happened to the main character. (Well, I was hoping for a grisly accident, a shooting from a jealous ex-lover, ANYTHING that might make the book exciting. Alas, that was not to be. It seemed like he made some of the characters historians, but they acted in stereotypical manner and didn't seem to know all that much about history. A little research and character development goes along way.