Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Hype Only

A complete waste of time. McEwan has done much better -- "Atonement," for example. The characterizations were thin and the story simply boring and predictable with enough sidetracks to make another not very interesting book. It was difficult to finish. I felt like stopping numerous times but kept thinking it might get better or "pay off" in some way -- it doesn't. There are too many better books to waste time on this one.