Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: emotionally weird

Kate Atkinson is among my favorite authors, thus my disappointment in this work is profound. The book is pure self-indulgent drivel; so much so, that I wonder if she wrote it just to see how much she could get away with--with the critics. Not a single character is less than repulsive - no - reprehensible; every location is soiled, literally or figuratively; who cares if the mystery of the protagonist's heritage is solved; why bother to finish this demeaning yet boring missle...... The word that comes to mind is "pejorative", which I don't commonly use because it is so often used by self-important psuedo-intellectuals. But Atkinson's dance through the hallways of profoundly defective academia-speak has to be described with words of equal disimportance. Don't touch this book; it is NOT clever and the sleasiness might rub off on your assaulted psyche.