Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: How to squeeze 30 pages of plot, in the first 300 pages of a book.

I am a Steven King fan, but even by his standards, this book starts out real slow. I had a hard time not putting this book down until I got through the slow moving, and far too chatty first half of the book. The last half of of the book was better (although not great), but by the time I got to it, I was pretty much soured on the book as a whole. If I knew what I know now, I would have never bought the book in the first place.