Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Is this the same book?

I bought this book from a second hand bookstore, thinking I'd made a great find. I love history, history fiction, and biographies, and this book seemed to have it all.But I was wrong. I don't understand how so many people can love this book: The book was terrible. The writing was atrocious. Cleopatra, one of the most clever, cunning and admirable women in history, was denigrated to a simpering fool in the book. The characters were two-dimensional, the dialogue was forced, and at times, just plain stupid. I tried very hard to give the book a chance; sometimes, stories need a bit of time to get going. But this one didn't. By the one hundredth page, I was bored to tears, and I found staring at the arrivals and departures screen at the airport (where I was reading during a long layover) to be far more interesting.I wouldn't even give this book away. I think I chucked it in a bin somewhere and purchased a far superior book : Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra. Now THAT's good writing.