Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Contrived, depressing, waste of an evening

I was fascinated by the book reviews on the cover. Being overweight myself, I thought the character was someone I could relate to. However, Dolores gives overweight people, and women in general a bad name. Her character is Judy Blooms Blubber meets Steven King. She is mean, hateful and vicious before she was raped and even before her parents fought. I was disgusted with her in the first chapter, and the feeling did not die. The author has no sense of what is like to be an adolescent girl. Lamb seemed to use Dolores's weight as the avenue for the reader pity. His use of language was pathetic and his characterization were cookie cutter of a dysfunction home. This novel was outlined carefully to pull at heart strings, yet it pushes every ounce of sympathy for the main character out the door along with my respect for Oprah for recommending this book.