Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not quite as bad...

While not quite as bad as watching paint dry, the only thing that kept it from that was that I was exasperated enough and wincing enough to stay awake.Impoverished sisters visit a dowager duchess' house party. The heroine's sister is the usual amiable beauty who the heroine hopes will marry a wealth man. The older sister meanwhile spends time with the gardener. The gardener, of course, is the duke, and being a charming sort of fellow, he sets out to test her. Will she marry a poor gardener (her family truly needs money) or will she refuse him?The writing was rather bad and the plot questionable, but the characters were cardboard cutouts of the most boring sort. I wouldn't recommend it.