Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Depressing at best

I'm a HUGE David Sedaris fan, and at book readings, he's singled out Augusten Burroughs as an up and coming talent. I must be missing something. This was painful to finish. There is no humor here. There's no uplifting ending, where Auguesten rises above the challenge to great heights. There's just...a large group of charachters for which I felt no sympathy.Mr. Burroughs, please give me my time back.