Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Please don't encourage bad writing

Please don't encourage bad writing by buying this book, or even by reading a friend's copy. The plot is paper thin, the timeline is fractured and impossible to follow, the characters are idiots and the writing is one more egregious example of advertising trumping literature. The author attempts to hitch a ride on the shoulders of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, but instead he's dragged along hanging onto the threads of Brown's tatterdemalion overcoat. Ugh!