Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: An Artist's Indulgence

When Neal Stephenson finished Cryptonomicon, he was so in love with some of the characters he created he decided to indulge his "phant'sies" by allowing them to live again in a work of heavily researched historical fiction. Thus the Baroque Cycle was born.All in all, I found the book to be excruciatingly hard to read. I did not finish it.1) The parade of Famous Important Personages was mildly interesting at first; then the list grew so long I quit caring.2) The sprinkling of "ye olde authentik Engishisms" in non-narrative descriptive text just made feel like I was swimming through treacle.This is the only work of Stephenson's I have not enjoyed.[Edited down with 62% less hyperbole!]