Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Promises Much, Delivers Little

"Smiley's People" was very boring.In a spy novel, something earth-shaking should be happening. There was no coup attempt, no assassination of a world leader, no plutonium, no white slavery, and no impending viral epidemic.What we had was a foolish ex-bureaucrat wasting his own time and money trying to dredge up a decades-old case that was of little importance even when it was current.If anything, the book showed the worthlessness of the intelligence services.The author is skilled with description, and possibly accurate in procedural details, but the plot is weak and the characters are one-dimensional and uninteresting.I put the book down after reading half of it, but I peeked at the conclusion to see if anything worthwhile might have been happening in the second half of the book. I don't think so.