Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Stupidest book I've ever read.

This was the biggest waste of my time this year. It is boring and nonsensical. A few times I thought Cornwell was trying to draw quirky characters a la Larry McMurtry in the Lonesome Dove novels. If so, she failed miserably. I tried to like these characters but they were just too stereotypical and silly. Having visited Tangier Island and finding the people there quaint, friendly and very interesting, I wondered what Ms. Cornwell was smoking when she went there.