Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Can't believe I wasted my time!!!

I enjoyed the first book of this series and praised it to all my friends. I liked _Lasher_ as well, but _Taltos_ is just plain bad. It is way too long and the dialog is inane sometimes. Only Anne Rice would write a paragraph to describe a color. Sometimes scenes were halting and seemed to be thrown in just to set up another, bigger scene. And the "I love you, but I hate you" idea was already old by page 100. I found I didn't care for the characters as I did in the other books. They were just *talked about*, not really explored as before. After reading 3/4 of it, I gave up, threw the book on the night stand and started reading _The Meaning of Quantum Theory_, by Jim Baggott. I found it much more interesting *and* exciting.