Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Dreary walk through English life

Michael Palin plays the English suburban characture so well when on the big screen and particularly within the framework of Python. Unfortunately it doesn't work in the book which did not keep my attention well. It tends to drone on with mild distraction and unsatisfying end. I barely raised the corners of my mouth to smile let alone laugh but obviously this was not the book's intention. What was the intention? a peep into a middle class suburban postman's life? Very possibly, but it did nothing for me Im afraid.