Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ponderous, forced, awful!

Dear Readers, beware. This is a negative review. If you don't wish to read on, I completely understand.Well, you know how your mom always told you, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything"? I'm sorry, Mom, but I can't stay silent about this book.I dragged myself through this quagmire of a novel by my fingernails, hating every minute of it. It is an example of "When Writers are Awful and Editors Go Bad!" (Like "When Animals Attack!") Everything about the writing in this book feels forced -- the situations, the characters, the dialogue. Even Ms. Sharp's descriptions of her town sound redundant. If I had edited this work, I would have sent her packing with a thesaurus to come up with something else.If you really want to read a story about an alcoholic mother and a dysfunctional family from Louisiana, go out immediately and get "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells. Now THAT'S a wonderfully written story.