Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: I hate it more than life itself

Say what you like about Martin Amis, at least he has a reader-friendly prose style. Which is more than can be said for Kingsley Amis. From a purely techno-linguistic viewpoint, the fic in question is unreadable. Ian Bell came up with a spot-on metaphor when he made mention of Kingsley's "paragraphs of oak". Heavy, unwieldy, boring as hell. It's the literary equivalent of Orson Welles sitting on your face for 294 pages.