Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Dumbed down

The author's website - [...] - is much funnier than this book. The illustrations do not work with the content as well as the rough, DIY style graphics on Maddox's website. The illustrations in the book are way too literal, dumbing down the potential. The book really comes off overall as an attempt to make the author's novel humor palatable to a mass audience.