Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Very Disappointing

This was a terrible book, one of the worst I have read in years. I would have quit, but it was all I had taken with me on my trip to Indonesia.The problem is that Geller almost never presents an arc of history. There is very little cause and effect, or discussion of broad themes that explain the change over time in Indonesia. Geller is trying to tell the history of an enormous nation, covering several centuries. Given such scope, we need big picture thinking and discussion. Instead, we get isolated facts and events, with no analysis at all of how they effected the larger sweep of history. The book reads like a series of unrelated facts.On top of it all, the prose is dry and uninteresting.I bought this book on a recommendation from Lonely Planet. I should have known better. Avoid this awful book.