Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Boring

Maybe I should have given the novel a better chance, but only made it through the first two chapters. A previous reviewer described the work as "high literature," and I have to strongly disagree. The prose seemed unpolished, and ultimately boring. It's certainly not a book that "grabs" one from the beginning. I felt the character development inadequate - I didn't get a good feel of who these people were, or a part of their world. It came across to me a collection of cliches, stereotypes. Maybe the book gets better as it goes, but I didn't feel it was worth my time to keep reading. Not enough sense of mystery from the outset.