Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Self indulgent trash

The book was so poorly done, with so very many flaws it will agravate any reader. I thought Steinbeck could be depressing, this guy had Steinbeck beat, with needless human suffering heaped upon tired metaphors and yet another helping of human suffering. And then, in a blinding flash of inspiration, the author just ends the book when each of the antagonists could make the story meaningfull.