Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Uninspired and bland

This book is the literary equivalent of "Diagnosis Murder" or "Murder She Wrote". The characters are one dimensional and not quite believable, especially the con goers.It is interesting that the book is so dated. For example, one of the characters talks about how he leaves messages in a file on a server at the University where the person he is sending the message to can log on and read it. In the 11 years since the book was written email has become so much a part of life that the whole talk sounds like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons raving about "this so-called iced cream".I was also unimpressed with the author's humorous timing. There were a couple of genuine chuckles in the book but there were several places where a funny gag is ruined because the author grinds it into the ground by spelling out the humor for us in detail.All in all a pretty disappointing and forgettable read.