Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A week of my life I'll never get back

My husband purchased this book for me after he read a review that raved about it. He went to a great deal of trouble to track the book down and get it for me for Christmas. If he hadn't gone to all the trouble, I would have chunked this in the trash after 2 or 3 pages. More than 800 pages later, I felt like I'd been trapped in a Seinfeld episode (not much happening, but spending a lot of time talking about it) without the laughs. Unfortunately, he bought 2 of her books for me so I also read the book of short stories - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - it was marginally better as the stories were short.