Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Roy needs to read a book on writing a novel

I think the novel lacks a purpose from sharing it's 'emotional' side from the begenning. The first couple of pages are perhaps a flawed copy of Gerald Durrel's great work. Next, the author goes against the 1st rule of writing: she has told everything and shown nothing. The book is too slow and does not engage the reader. It rings a hollow and a rather disgusting tone of the Indian culture and setting. The emotions are not well delivered and only the disgusting scenes have been woven into a sick patchwork of words. The characters are no more than caricatures.By the way I am from Pakistan, so I know Indian setting better than most of those who I presume have read this book, and thus I believe that it could have been presented in a much much better manner.