Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Don't waste time, money, brain cells on "Hannibal"

When I got to the chapter where a young Hannibal tames his horse, I put down the book, picked up Mary Renault's "Fire From Heaven", and encountered the same scene, practically word for word, of Alexander's taming of Boukephalos. The difference? Ms. Renault wrote her book first. And it's genius. Ross Leckie is an unbelievably bad writer, unintentionally funny in a "dark and stormy night" sort of way. The book is slow, flat, and derivative. But that scene made me close it up and return it to the library. If I'm going to read second-hand fiction, I'm going back to the original source.