Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not the worst I've read. But close.

I finished this book mostly out of sheer bloodymindedness... It was way too long, and it DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE. It's an ongoing sermon about how technology and nonviolence will overcome the more basic aspects of humanity that have dominated civilization since the beginning of time. But the story doesn't support this assertion, which makes me wonder what the point of writing this book in the first place was.