Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Banal failure

The author knows about Freud and about Shakespeare. So, it seems, he decided to write a novel to act as a vehicle for his knowledge. This is no basis for any novel writer, least of all a thriller writer. The characters are hollow, there are a zillion plots (not all relevant), the construction is fragmented and amateurish and the dialogue beggars belief:".......shoot me""Very well", said [character] shooting me.I regret wasting my time in continuing this extrememly and inexplicably hyped novel to its even-worse-than-expected end