Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Slow slow slow

Oh my gosh this book is slow. I made it half way through then gave up. By then I had taken to skimming with short pauses to read when it got interesting. If you like fast-moving action then I can't recommend this book to you, at least not the first 200 pages. There are a few interesting developments in the first half of the book, but it's mostly extraneous description and dialog that do not advance the plot. Endless speculation about what might be happening. Long descriptions about characters that I don't care to read about. People talking on and on pointlessly. It's maddening because you want to know what's going on but that core part of the plot unfolds very very slowly. I read the back cover of the sequel, Anvil of Stars, so I know how Forge ends but I have now unfortunately lost any enthusiasm for these two books.