Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A bit of a bore

Dale Peck is an incredibly thoughtful, articulate and emotionally moving writer, but this piece fails him. His writing career, which i have followed from the beginning, has had its ups and downs, but the writing has always managed to keep things afloat. He has such a mastery of the language, its incredible. But this true story is a major drag, and you need a great deal of faith to keep going.Hopefully the next book will once again engage an interesting story with the poetics of his use of language.