Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Despicable Characters

I read the Dueling Machine some 35 years ago (I think I liked it as a teenager), I decided it was time to try Ben Bova again. I read the reviews. Sexist? Well, ok I can live with it like I live with racial slurs I don't like in a Raymond Chandler novel, etc. But what I wasn't expecting was that the novel contains almost no characters that I felt were worth saving. Sure, characters with flaws can make a book more interesting. But here, after reading past halfway, I realized that I wouldn't care much if any or all of the characters died. Actually if all of them died, including the protagonist, it would be fine by me. Hmm......that's not good. I didn't finish the book....maybe I should have. If you think so, read the book. Me? I'm going back to not reading Ben Bova. Two stars because sci-fi "exploration" of Venus was fun.