Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Feeble Excuse for a Novel

It appears that Mr. Forsyth's renowned skills as a novelist are a thing of the distant past. In this lamentably inadequate effort, a muddled history of recent events in the Middle East is offered as the sole compensation for a thin plot, no character development and no action. Childish prose and sloppy grammar complete this offense against good writing. Mr. Forsyth should be ashamed as should his publisher.