Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Prose diappoints, reader gives up

I'd just finished reading Haruki Murakami's finely written "South of the Border, West of the Sun," when I picked up "The Electrical Field." Kerri Sakamoto's book did not survive the inevitable comparison. I found the prose uninspired ("She shook her head like a child does, flinging her hair all about.") and the pacing uneven, so that I couldn't find the flow. Certainly there was nothing compelling about the narrator. After 25 pages, I put the book down. I doubt that I'll pick it up again.