Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Didn't know what I was supposed to be appreciating

I think I would've enjoyed this book more if I had known that I was supposed to be appreciating the goofy characters that Ray Midge encounters and not necessarily Midge's attempt to track down his cheating wife. The point of the book is certainly not the plot. Make sure you understand this before you start reading it.The first half of the book, when Midge is hot on the trail to Mexico in pursuit of his wife and her boyfriend, was my favorite part of the book. Probably because it is before he gets bogged down in Belize. At that point, the book transitions from plot-based to character-based. Since I mistakenly got too focused on the plot, the book stagnated and became boring.Since I had already read True Grit, which was plot-based all the way through, I was expecting more of the same. As such, I was disappointed with this one. Maybe it will take reading it again to fully appreciate its strengths. Until then, it was fairly "meh" to me.