Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Could not finish

I was not expecting this to be great literature or anything, but I at least thought it might be a breezy, fun summer read. I was wrong. This book is SO tedious. I found myself skipping entire sections, hoping that the story would pick up. It never did, and I finally put it down around page 50 or so. Powell is just not a good writer at all. Blogging about dinner is probably right up her alley as a writer. I saw the movie which was thankfully much, much better. The movie took out all the parts of the book that just didn't do anything for me, like her brother "Heathcliff" and her dad's birthday dinner. As a reader, you wonder why she includes all that stuff. It just seemed like "filler" to me.