Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tedious to the extreme

I thought after "The Dante Club" that the author would have been more experienced and better edited, but no. Even trapped on a cross-country flight, I could not keep interested in the plot or major characters. The author does a good job of imitating leisurely and feverish 19th prose, but this is the 21st century. I don't have the endless reading time of a wealthy person of the 19th century. For feverish writing, I'll return to any book by T. C. Boyle; for leisurely, any classic of 19th century literature.