Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: As bad as a book can get

This book is .... If I could rate it below 1 star, I would. I find it difficult to believe this author gets paid for his work. He's trite beyond belief and has no sense of how people actually talk. Nearly every sentence contains a metaphor. It seems like he's getting paid by the word. A solid, serious edit would cut the book in half and improve it immeasuably. Staring at a blank wall would be better than reading this piece of [junk]. Shame, shame on Cussler.