Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Almost Mediocre

Oh! how I was desperate to like this book. Especially since it was my bathtub reading. And especially, especially since I was reading The Three Musketeers at the same time (as my nighttime reading). I just never got into the character of Corso as much as I'd have liked. Though the ending is alright, the middle of the book was too hard to get through--nothing dangerous, nothing interesting, only mildly intriguing, nothing that would make one to want to continue reading. I hope you like it more than I.