Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Carl has jumped the shark

This book has the usual whacky characters, the greed, the bluntly comic disasters, deaths and oddball dismemberments yada yada. Ultimately, it feels like Carl has begun to "mail it in". His books are now so formulaic....it's like a college kid wrote a derivative Hiaasen novel...hell, I think I could write one by now. It just isn't well or thoughtfully written, and this from someone who has loved Hiaasen's work in the past. There are a few chuckles, but it all seems forced. It's like he peaked with Nature Girl and has lost his edge.I wouldn't recommend this book....I was bored.