Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pure torture is right!

I agree with the other reviewers who were left wondering why this book has gotten such good reviews. At best it was tedious; at worst simply boring. Silly plot, plodding descriptions of a confusing profusion of characters, none well enough drawn to draw us into their lives--it was difficult, right to the end of the book, to keep them straight. A huge disappointment after all the hype surrounding this novel.