Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not That Great

This is not a good book. It tells the story of a massive earth quake which supposedly knocked California off into the ocean in 1969. Yeah, it sounds like it has the potential to be a good story. That's what made me pick it up.Alas, the book is dry and unexciting. It reads like a history book, and since it is a history of an event which never happened, it really isn't at all interesting.There are no main characters, so the reader has no one with which to identify. What story there is, is told in brief and disconnected pieces as if the book were a collection of newspaper and magazine articles. Perhaps this was meant to lend a sense of reality to the story but it doesn't work.In short, this book is a failure. It fails on so many levels that it would take another book to list all the shortcomings. Do yourself a favor. Skip this one.