Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Great prose but not much cohesion to the story

This book sounded very promising at the start, the first few chapters, then began to fall apart without taking the reader along. My mother sent it to me and I wouldn't recommend it for her to read. It has graphic language that doesn't seem to fit in and doesn't seem to have a real purpose. The author comes across as being very impressed with himself for putting together brilliant sentences and prose and saying a lot in a small space, otherwise, it's a wash that doesn't hold together in any way. It is simplistic, banal at times, and although he is quite good at putting ideas on paper, they don't come together in any powerful way. When I finished the book I was disappointed, hoping for a meaning of some sort that pulled it together. Wally Lamb far outdoes this writer in "This Much I Know Is True", for example, but I will probably read this writer if he writes another novel, but definately wait until it is in paperback.