Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Terrible

Unless "The Rule of Four" is really an intricate, coded treasure map in disguise, it's useless. Dwelling mostly on a self-important Princeton undergraduate and a two-dimensional romance, and driven by a sluggish and uninspiring plot, this "thriller" failed to meet my expectations - and they weren't very high.I was hoping only that this would be a fast-paced, mindless book in which I could lose myself for a few hours. Sadly, it is a tedious exercise in boredom that oozes with pretention and smug self-congratulation (though, to be fair, it IS mindless). After hundreds of pages that read like a Princeton-only edition of People Magazine, the "mystery" around which the plot revolves is dealt with in a matter of pages, and ultimately left unresolved.