Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Flat and insipid

I was drawn to this book based on both the hype and the Graham Greene comparisons. Boy, does Garland have a PR firm or what? The dialogue in this book is silly. Read aloud, one can only cringe. As for the structure, it may be cool and of-the-moment and postmodern, but it isn't handled well enough to engage a serious reader or to even entertain a serious thought. The most sagacious, smartest moment of this book is the epigraph.