Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not as good as his others

I have enjoyed many of Smith's other books, especially the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" and the Isabel Dalhousie series, but the central character of this book (and series) is pathetically boring. I cannot identify with this character at all. Perhaps if you read it and can identify, then you might like the series, but basically, it's about a bumbling kind of stupid professor.