Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellent writer/boring book

Grisham certainly has a mastery of language, however, "A Painted House" moves so slowly and the repetition is so grating it adds little to the story. Incessant yammering about the love of the St. Louis Cardinals, mom's garden, and Ricky's service in Korea propelled me skim the last third of the book. The seven year old protagonist sounded more like a twenty year old and had ideas far beyond those of any seven year old I have met. Grisham certainly captured the environment and hardships of farming life in the 50s; however, other than giving the reader a sense of a life that is not commonly part of most American's lives today this book is, quite simply,boring. The author opens many potentially interesting plot lines that all fizzle in the end. Nothing much develops from these plot lines; then again that may be Grisham's point and I am so obtuse I missed the "big picture."