Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Terrible, terrible, terrible!

I feel that Franzen's editor should have done a few more "corrections" of this novel. Anyone who writes sentences that go on for a page with semi-colon after semi-colon of semi-connected thoughts should be avoided at all costs! Franzen's vocabulary is advanced, but forced (as if he had a five dollar word quota that he was trying to meet). The characters are thinly drawn--Alfred's treatment of Enid belongs in a world fifty years ago, as does Gary's treatment of his wife. Chip is a screw-up of the most annoying kind--brilliant and bored. The sibling rivalry and parental preference is outlandish and sickening. I cannot imagine children being raised in such a functional dysfunctional family being this passive aggressive and jealous. There is nothing endearing or sympathetic about these characters. They are merely pathetic.