Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Didn't live up to the hype

I read this book after many recommendations (from friends who have the same taste in books that I do.) and found it almost unreadable. None of the characters held my interest at all. I kept waiting for the book to get better, but sadly it did not. I am still wondering what so many people see in it. I had to skim to end it was so boring.