Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Interesting but not too entertaining

3001: The Final Odyssey is really a strange book. It has the general form of a novel, but it really doesn't have much of a plot. It mainly seems to be an excuse for Arthur C. Clarke to hypothesize about what life and the Earth will be like in another thousand years. Some of his ideas are very interesting, and they all seem to be firmly rooted in "science fact", but I was still kind of disappointed with this book. The characters were flat and there wasn't really a plot. I would recommend this book only for the novelty value of the futuristic settings and people. As far as novels go, it was pretty poor, and many people who read the first three books of the series will be disappointed.