Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Too much lead-in with no relevance!!!

I read Rendezvous with Rama, and then I immediately jumped into Rama II. The first thing I noticed was that Gentry Lee writes and elaborates a lot more than Arthur C. Clark. Also, he spends way too long on trying to develop stupid, simpleminded characters while barely spending any time on the PLOT. Unfortunately, I read onward. Some of the book was interesting, but no thought was given to the facts that perspective changed and so did the view of Rama. The plot goes more and more downhill, and the end parts were really stupid. Although this book stunk, I won't spoil the end. I will just say that the next book is worse.