Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: turtledove is obviously short on cash

Turtledove's novels only seem to get worse. In The Grapple his characters become even more two dimensional. He repeats himself constantly, and his plot drags. I think that: 1) his graduates students actually write his books; 2) he stretches the books out so he can hit a certain page count; 3) that no editing is done on his books; 4) he suscribes to the P.T Barnum theory of writing - suckers will keep buying his books no matter how bad they are.