Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A waste of time

This is the worst book I've read this year! I couldn't finish it. What is Patterson thinking? I've read almost all of his books and think that they have gotten noticeably worse the last several years. The shortness of the chapters and choppiness of the story really bothered me. It really appears that he's just churning them out. I can't believe that this is the same man who wrote Along Came a Spider, which was excellent. I think I've just read my last James Patterson novel.