Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring!!!

After Odd Thomas and The Face I was really looking forward to reading The Taking. Man, was I disappointed. It was so boring, I would skip whole pages just so I could get to the end. Mr. Koontz must have been in a drugged state to think that this book was anything up to his usual standards. I have always enjoyed his books and will continue to read them unless the next one is like this one and then, I"m afraid, I'll have to pass him by. It seems like he has gone the way of Stephen King in the last years when Mr. King's books got way too weird and boring.