Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: A waste of time

I didn't particularly mind that this book was "out of sequence." What I did mind, however, was the quality...or more to the point, the lack thereof...of the writing. For the most part this book sounded like it was written by committee, and a not particularly literate one at that. The overblown writing, the cliches...I think a beginning level creative writing class could have done a better job. This really was an appalling piece of work.