Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: First book I've read of Oates and now my last.

I could just repeat some of the other one star reviews. This was the first book I've read by Joyce Carol Oates and I probably would not have read it if it had not been recommended by a "friend". It was one of the most tedious books I have read. I felt that the characters were shallow, that there was practically no wisdom or perception in the book and I have to say I found myself aghast that the father would reject his daughter, supposedly the apple of his eye, because she had been raped. I'm sure Ms Oates is very talented and has much better but with so many Pulitzer Prize and Nobel prize winning authors out there, it's highly doubtful I will read anything else of hers.