Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: What a waste of time, waste of a man, waste of a book

I would call myself a life-long reader or Grisham, and I thoroughly HATED this book. I did not have any sympathy for the main character considering his alcohol and drug abuse, arrogance, inability to deal with rejection from the Major Leagues, rape charges, and other police activity connected to this awful human being. Unfortunately, John Grisham has let his love of baseball, and those connected to it, block his view of how much this man does not need to be remembered. There must me hundreds of other "innocent men" who deserve 368 pages written about them. Simply being the highest baseball draft pick from Oklahoma is not a reason to write about someone. This guy and this book were not worth it.