Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Stick to Serving in the Restaurant

This book, page after tedious page, serves the writer--whose bio includes that of restaurateur--rarely the reader. The main character's intended strength is forever applied in his words to others, and these statements are more air than action, so that strength comes out as weakness. One gets the feeling the author, through his main character, is telling off everyone who has annoyed him. What little story there is--a drive-by shooting and the family's life that follows--could have been told in a dozen pages. Sorry, but this book is nowhere.