Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Great writing without a punchline

I read this book expecting the great Stephen King-ness I always do (i.e. The Green Mile, Thinner) and what I got was about 600 pages of....I'm still not sure. What I got was a mish mosh of allegorical characters, good against evil and flashbacks mixed in with real life that I kept reading through in hopes that it would make sense in the end-which it did not! I love Stephen King, his writing style is superb as always but if I'm going to read a 600 page book, I need it to have a point-which this one sadly did not. Hope my next venture into the King's work will be more rewarding, but if you're looking for dramatically creepy and sometimes tragic, all signifying nothing, then perhaps you will be more fulfilled than I was.