Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pointless

Classic? Why? Slow, plodding and pointless. The style is pretentious and irritating. One doesn't care about any of the numerous characters. The narrator Augie isn't likable, and the so called adventures are nothing but a long string of stories that amount to nothing. Bellow seems to try to use every word he knows and in ways you've never heard in sentences that don't make sense.