Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Some of the worst fantasy I've ever read

I have a very eclectic reading taste, and usually find something to enjoy in pretty much any book I pick up to read. And yet this work was impossible for me to enjoy. And I tried. What others call "purposely obscure prose" I call just plain lousy writing.The stories may actually have had some merit were the prose more pleasant...but then, I doubt it, which brings me to the next problem I found with this work. None of the characters were likeable and the world, though others have called it well designed, is just a collection of random whimsy and fancy. The two combined would make the stories difficult to enjoy even if the prose weren't so painful to read.All in all, out of the thousands of fantasy books that I have read, this is the worst of the bunch. It is the ONLY one I had to continually push myself not to toss in the trash without finishing...ever. I found nothing in the entirity of this book worth even a tenth of the time it took to read.