Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: What Were They Thinking?

My first thought after finishing BLINDNESS was "Certainly someone in the world wrote something more worthy of a Nobel Prize!" The prize must be as political as its critics claim it is because this book's plot was at the level of a high-school senior's attempt at fantasy. It plodded along through some of the most stilted and ineffective prose I've ever read. Though I finished the novel, my disappointment in the Nobel Prize Committee was such that I threw the book across the room and have yet to pick it up. What a waste! I'll save myself the trouble of wading through any more of Mr. Saramago's work.