Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Soap operatic saga full of caricatures

I just finished this book, and I am hugely disappointed. The book could have been condensed down to a third of it's current form. There are ramblings that go on for pages that repeat information that just felt like page fillers. It seems like no editing had been done for this book. Clavell tortures us with poor writing, shallow characters, and caricaturization of all Chinese characters and especially completely distorted view and depiction of all women in the book. Perhaps Mr. Clavell suffered from seeing all women as virgins or whores. A total waste of time.