Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Road is long...

...too long convey its story effectively. There are both horrifying and touching parts of the story, but in between are long stretches of nothing interesting, as gray and bleak as the world the author shows the reader. Dad loves his son, so much he will (literally) walk across the country to try and get him to any kind of safety or give him any kind of future. I found the story far too meandering and repetitive at points to convey the story effectively, McCarthy could have accomplished the same in a much shorter narrative and still registered the same points with the readers.