Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Outdated and uninteresting

This book was originally published in 1975 and I think it shows. I realize it's a product of its time but some of the racism and sexism is a bit jarring (for instance, a detective says that "all Chinese look the same to a Dutchman" and, later on, two of them muse that a girl who'd been molested had it coming as she was wearing short shorts). Such comments are dropped casually, not as though the author intended to show flaws in his characters.The story itself plods along with very few surprises and I didn't find it particularly rich in "Dutchness," either. I can appreciate a good, slow story, don't get me wrong. This one is not even so much slow as it is simply boring. By the way, someone should have told him that when it comes to hanging people, the past tense is "hanged," not "hung."