Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: a perfect treadmill of boredom

After struggling for five weeks and becoming more and more confused by characters, events, and so forth, I simply have called it quits. My interest waned at about page 200 and I gave up around 400. Seventeenth century viewpoints were interesting and Pears style was better than most writing today. However, I many times wished for an abridged version. Like hearing Wagner's operas,it was interesting at first, but sheer length left me yawning.