Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: long, boring, painful

I picked up this book with high hopes of a "great read" over Christmas break. Oprah raved about it...and so did some of the reviews. I TRIED SO HARD to enjoy this book. But it dragged on and on, the plot never really ufolded into anything new or interesting and the characters were flat and one dimentional. This book had great opportunity, but fell short in every area. If it were half as long and half as violent and brutal....it could have hope. Don't waste your time on this TOO long, boring book. Very disappointing. My husband also read it and agrees with my review.