Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: dull, disjointed, and dishonest

As someone who has read a lot about Thailand of the 1960s, I found this novel difficult to bear. Worse still, it struck me as dull and disjointed. It inexpertly tries to weave together the mystery of "Silk King" Jim Thompson's disappearance with the unhappy marriage of a strangely spaced-out American housewife enduring life in the midst of "exotic" Bangkok. Throw in a murder and the muddle is complete. The fiction seems oddly amateur, the history uninformed, and the descriptions of Thailand and Thai customs come straight out of a second-rate guidebook. The decision to include "Siam" in the title seems crass and dishonest as the novel has nothing to do with Siam. Tuck appears guilty of breaking the cardinal rule of beginning writers: write about what you know. Tuck demonstrates that she knows very little about the setting or circumstances of this novel. I rarely dislike any book about Thailand. I guess for that reason, this novel is special.