Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Page filling at its best

I wasn't ready to dismiss the author just quite yet, after pointless and shallow The Beach. I have never put down a book after 18 pages, until now. I will give Alex Garland credit for at least moving The Beach along, but The Tesseract's opening scene just sits there for 18 pages. I guess if I want to read a great adventure/suspense novel, I should just dust off my old Alistair MacLean novels.