Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Too difficult to get into

This book was recommended to me after I had traveled the Oregon coast, and I was anxious to read the book which so many have termed "the great American novel." However, I could just not get into the story. Following the point of view is a challenge, to say the least. I couldn't keep track of who was thinking, talking or where we were in the time frame of the story. I am not a reader who likes fluffy kinds of stories, but this one was too much. So disorganized and barely lucid. I also found that after 100 pages, there wasn't one character in the book that I liked, or cared about--that is, if I could figure out who was who. I gave up at page 100. Maybe the idea for the story was a great notion, but I couldn't follow it. I am amazed at all of the people who found this book so great--being that is it so extremely difficult to read.