Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: objectionable

The whole story is that the author (who is reflected in the protagonist) attributes untenable amounts of tragic weight to an accidental death. He then infers a great moral deficiency in those who might have saved this person but were not willing to do so when their own lives seemed likely to be lost in the process. This is not just the usual over-blown socially-correct lip service most people offer in the face of a tragedy. This is a humanist to the bizarre extreme. At the same time, he also has no regard for animals. I can't think of a worse person and more objectionable view of things.The writing is very good, but the values of the protagonist are so offensive that most people I know have put the book down without finishing it. The book won accolades, but consider their source, the same who lauded "Disgrace" by Coetzee. Unless you are as squalid as the author, it's probably not your kind of story.