Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: I guess I'm in the minority....

....because I didn't really care for this book. Although it's a somewhat fast read, it felt like it took forever to get through it because the story was unoriginal and uninteresting.Dennis Lehane knows how to write a good sentence, but all of those sentences didn't amount to much in this book. Honestly, I thought the story was quite boring and although I desperately wanted to get into it, I couldn't. The story was plodding and the book was filled with so much extra filler that it seemingly could have been cut in half.Cliches and stereotypes abound and it felt like Lehane used them to makeup for his lack of "street" knowledge. It was like watching a poorly made TV show or a made-for-TV movie on USA.I'm forced to scratch my head to figure out why so many people have favorable reviews for this book. I thought it was pedestrian and bland.