Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Wretched pot-boiler

To really understand how wretched this book is, you need to listen to it on tape, so you are forced to endure every cliche and every needless detail that doesn't advance the plot or add to the (non-existant) characterizations of the protagonists. Higgins did well with "Eagle has landed," but has been phoning it in ever since. I'm going to do something very unusual: return the tape to the library before I'm half way through with this poorly written, trite and overpriced potboiler.