Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: told not shown

While I really enjoyed Badami's first book, The Hero's Walk proved cumbersome and tedious. The plot lacks any creativity. It plods along at a labourious and predictable pace. The reader is "told" rather than "shown" everything feeling, thought, emotion. Pales in comparison to Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry.