Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Fizzles out...

I'm in the process of trying to read all Frank Herbert just for the sake of it. This book starts off really strong. I liked the two main characters and some of their banter made me chuckle. But about 2/3 of the way through, he went off on some metaphysical mumbo jumbo tangent and completely ruined it for me. It's like he just left off what was a very interesting storyline and descended into some incomprehensible blather about our collective mind creating God, blah blah blah. I don't even know what the hell he was thinking given how the first 2/3 of the book read. Even the first 2/3 are not great fiction, but I did enjoy it. The last third of the book is a complete confusion of eastern metaphysical nonsense. When I read the ending, it left me shaking my head. My recommendation: the minute you get to the part where Orne arrives on Amel, just put it down and move on.