Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Really, really bad

Terry Brooks had a good idea for a story so it's a shame that it turned out as poorly as it did. This may be the worst written book to ever land between hard covers. Good fantasy has an element of rationality; this book is a testament to the "escaping the avalanche..." school of writing. The characters are shallow, the adventures are trite. It's rare that I don't finish a book once I begin to read it, but there was no way I could get through this dribble. If you MUST read this, at least buy a second-hand copy; using paper to print more copies of this is nothing less than a sin.