Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tripe abounds

Overly-aware of itself, this book is filled with every standard trick-of-the-trade device handed to Lit students the world over. There are glimmering nuggets of potential throughout the story that are concealed by heavy-handed form. Subtle like a dump truck, cliche' cliche' and so forth. With all the rave about 'Murderball' and the talent of Dana Shapiro, I'm not sure who is more to blame here, Shapiro or his editor - or both?1 Star because amazon.com does not allow anything less.