Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A waste of time

I listened to an abridged version of "The Prince of Tides" and I thought it was one of the worst books I've heard or read in the last ten years. I could not find one redeeming feature in it. None of the characters were at all likable, believable, intelligent (the constant use of `big words' was off-putting), or individuals you cared anything about. The dialogue was as predictable as it was hum-drum. The story line was a cross between far-fetched and science fiction which morphed into a convoluted, jumbled mess. We were left to believe that had only the people of this small community in South Carolina listened to this crazed Wingo family all would have turned out for the best.Some excuse it as mere southern gothic, I think not. The only instance where Pat Conroy and William Faulkner belong in the same sentence is to say that the former is not ever to be compared with the latter in any way.