Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Long tedious comic book

Rarely have I read a sillier, shallower book.The writing style is roughly 12th grade, the history-science clumsily interjected, the characters straight out of Batman Comics, and the ending utterly predictable. Crichton must write this stuff in his sleep dreaming all the while of the many dollars he will make selling this to the movies for which it was obviously written. It is disheartening to be confronted with what is known as a "best-seller" for it reveals the reading tastes and abilities of the average reader.And, NO, I didn't finish it. Why waste the time when the ending was apparent from page 20. Bah humbug to you MC and your appallingly badly written books.