Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Don't bother

With Tilda Swinton in the movie version of this title, I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie. I finished it yesterday. I hated it. I give it one star just because someone bothered to write it but it's not worth reading. The characters bear no resemblance to anyone I know or have ever known, the story is much more about the mother than the son, and she's enormously self-indulgent and spoiled. The child is portrayed as demonic - do really demonic children exist??? - and the father is portrayed as incredibly clueless. Both my daughter and my niece tried to read it and quit after less than 60 pages. But by far the most telling thing about my reading this book this month is that my niece reminded me I'd tried to read it years ago and couldn't make it through. I had totally forgotten this fact. I must have blocked it out.I love a psychological study as much as the next person but this wasn't one. It was unpleasant, boring, irritating. I can't believe I finished it.