Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Excellent read they say? Correction!

After reading excellent reviews for "The Corrections", I pre-ordered this book from Amazon.com and very much looked forward to reading it. When Oprah chose it as one of her selections, my enthusiasm only increased. Alas! This book is torture to read. Each sentence drags on with overly poetic, overly detailed, overly worded prose. Each character a pathetic and uninteresting bore (who really cares about these people??). Midwesterners deserve a better description than this book has to offer. Trust me when I advise you not to use your hard earned money on this one. Borrow the book from a library or a friend (she'll probably be happy to fish it out of the recycle box).