Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: pretentious and unreadable

The author's writing style, which I'm sure is supposed to be "groundbreaking", is unreadable. I personally found it offensive, affected, and completely pretentious. After 75 pages of frustration, I decided not to waste my time and rented the movie. This proved to be a wise move. For the first time since "The Godfather", the movie is actually far better than the novel on which is it based!!!