Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: This book is boring.

This is a story that starts nowhere and goes nowhere. Lots of characters, but no one that really plays any kind of an important role. I kept reading and reading thinking that any time now, things would pick up. Well, there's a short half-gasp, then things go back into the nauseating tedium of the life of Rebecca Davitch. Pretty much a waste of 9 hours.Want to read a really good book? White Oleander by Janet Fitch! Dynamite!