Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Almost unbearably formulaic

Fans of James Patterson, beware! I love his earlier novels, but this was a bad imitation. It seemed to me as if Patterson himself had probably developed the character and outlined the plot and then had his co-author do the actual writing.Whatever the process, it was mind-numbingly bad. Chapters of just a couple of pages for those with flickering attention spans. Unbelievably simplistic, cliched writing. It was like Patterson badly reproduced by a computer program -- formulaic, cliched and an utter waste of time and money.