Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Embarrasingly bad

This is a comic book without the pictures. I cannot imagine it being of interest to anyone other than ten (okay, eight) year old boys. It has the characters and plotline of a shuffled deck of Pokemon(r) cards and clunky prose to boot. It is a serious, fatal mistake to make your narrator a pompous professorial type and then keep illustrating his pomposity ad nauseam. I literally could not finish it and really would like my money back. Carr's previous books were of an uneven quality but this is a surprisingly bad development. Read the instruction manual for your VCR before you start this one; it has better science, clearer prose, more interesting characters and a better plot.