Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Very juvenile; skip this if you're over 13 years old

Yet another "man becomes Death" tale, with a silly subplot about the war of Heaven vs. Hell. Lots of padding in between.I remember in high school several friends had recommended this. Who knows, I might even have liked it... 30 years ago. Reading in retrospect, it seems its target audience is young teenagers who don't have much exposure to "good" literature.The plot is shallow--and internally inconsistent/contradictory, the characters are one-dimensional, and the setting was annoying (think "Xanth on Earth"). The writing style is horridly florid, and you can make a drinking game out of how many exclamation marks are used (warning: you'll get hammered a chapter into it.) As if that wasn't bad enough, there are lengthy dialogue digressions that are probably meant to be "profound" but simply come across as superficial and intellectually pretentious.I'm tempted to give it 1 star, but I'll bump up to two as I can actually see young people liking it.