Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A Disappointment

For years I'd been awaiting Barker's newest publication, constantly checking and rechecking as the dates kept being pushed back, but perhaps they needed to be pushed back even more so that Barker could have turned this pale reflection of his talent into something more moving and cohesive.All of the things I normally love most of a Barker creation were missing or malformed in this work -- the characters were forced into absurd situations, merely so the dodgy threads of this murky story would somehow weave themselves together. The story itself was forced forward instead of propelled by its own momentum of character and imagination. Everything felt out of place, I didn't care about a single person throughout the book's nearly 700 pages, all while I'm desperately trying to like a mediocre work from one of my favorite authors.It just didn't work. Better luck next time, Clive. I'll still be waiting.