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

Let me tell you what I liked about the book:Okay, now that that's done...I couldn't finish this book, so I'll avoid a precis of the plot. The writing is tedious. The author thinks that it's okay to directly address the readers, but her asides are at best condescending, and at worst puerile. In some cases, as with Martin Amis, it's kind of fun to be directly addressed by the author.The characters were all cardboard cutouts, at best.If there were a zero star rating, I'd use that.