Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Gag! Glech!

I'll admit right now that I went about reading this book the wrong way. First off, I learned the plot from a sanitized comic-book version when I was 12. Then I read _Kilshandra_, a book I considered ridiculous, but fun to read. Only then did I start in on _The_Crystal_Singers_. I didn't finish.Not only was the science vague and nonsensical-- forgiveable for storytellers-- but the characters reacted like badly-sculpted high-school automatons in a soap opera. Kilshandra's characterization was ludicrous as the perfect heroine, and everyone else just acted silly and stupid. Bad, bad, bad. I don't have anything against McCaffrey, but if she put out other books like this, I soon will.