Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Staccato badinage en masse turned me off...

Overwritten, the story gets lost in the irritating machine gunjokey-ness that passes as "wit." Don't they edit theseso-called "best-selling" writers? I really wanted to get intoa juicy story...stuck it out for a few chapters...but was utterly defeated by the neverending "shtick." Sometimes it works.Here it does not. The author is carried away with her"style," which is, basically, just a smartass stand-uproutine which, unfortunately, does not stand up. Yawn.