Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Ambler Warning degrades Ludlum's name

I bought this thinking it was, at the very least, an unfinished Ludlum novel. Boy was I disappointed! I had no idea 'authors', who are either in witness protection or too ashamed to use their real names, were allowed to peddle books using Ludlum's good name??? Aside from the cliched opening escape and the highly predictable ending, the author of 'The Ambler Warning' seems to want to impress his/her readers by using dozens upon dozens of the most obscure and arcane words he/she can find in his/her thesaurus. Now I have a pretty good vocabulary, but having to put this book down every 10-15 minutes to look up words just made the reading experience annoying. I, for one, will not read/purchase another novel not written by the master himself!