Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: How can a six hundred page novel survive in the marketplace

of ideas without any ideas? The writing is laborious, the characters are simplistic stereotypes, the plot reeks of deus ex machina, or shall I say David Wingrove ex machina since I believe this "novel" to be the result of a writing group/therapy session that Mr. Wingrove was deluded into thinking had literary merit. Its O.K. to be in love with yourself, just don't ask me to subsidize you. My hands feel sticky after reading it. Yuck.