Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Forgettable

The Perfume was a huge hit among my circle of friends while I was in high school. It seemed everyone was reading it. I came across it quite late but I wouldn't have missed anything if I had never read it. It starts promisingly when the child without a smell is born in filth in 18th century Paris, but before the first half is finished, it becomes uninteresting and tedious. The author employs a narrative style, there is almost no dialogue and in my opinion it is more suited to a longish short story than to a novel. I am ok with the main character not being identifiable but I didn't find him interesting enough to be repulsed by him either. The middle parts of the book are nothing more than a way to fill the pages and the character development is poor. The end is totally meaningless and ridiculous. Maybe the problem with the book is that it is never beliveable, not even as a fantasy.I cannot comment on the language as I have read a Turkish translation.