Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ponderous

I think this novel is a dreadful, pretentious bore. I can live with the twenty cent theology lesson, but where was an editor? This seems to have tumbled out of the press like a road apple from a pony's rear-end. Lousy writing and editing really ruin books for me and this one is a lost cause. The author had something Important to say and he makes it clear we must listen. What astonishes is that a publisher can confuse ponderous with profound and have such rock-bottom standards.