Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: poor attempt by a formerly interesting author to write a thr

i started reading this book with some hesitation. it seems to me that mr folliet's writing have contiued declining in quality and interest from his former works, most especially "eye of the needle". "hammer of eden" is better suited as a marvel comic rather than a novel format. the characters are so thinly written as to be little more than opaque and the various plots within the story just don't stand up to reality. finally, the fact that there still exits a commune that seems to have been successful in its efforts after 25 years only to fall lock-step into the wishes of an illiterate flake does us former hippies a disservice.tbcha@epix.net