Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Don't waste your money . . . 1/2 STAR

This has to be the worst book ever published. The author's attempts to show off as an 'insider' of Wall Street lead the reader onto a long boring journey of no interest between the protagonist, a young Wall-streeter, and a control-freak antagonist so poorly created it pained me to continue this story. I have to say I stopped reading Assets and Lies by Robert Geis because I think the only lie was that this book was worthy of publishing.The author should have considered hiring an editor to assist him in creating a compelling plot line, not to mention character development - which there was very little. As for the touted machinations of being an insider's book about the Mutual Fund industry, well, from what I read in the New York Times or the New York Post, I've read as much about the subject matter as Geis writes in his book. Overall this was a poor display writing in an area that is most interesting.