Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I've Read Better Fiction On My Cereal Box...

This book was a dreadful disappointment to me. A friend at work recommended it highly. I really enjoyed it until I reached the beginning of Chapter 1. Then things got difficult.My main complaint about the book (besides the fact that it moves slowly and is difficult to slog through) is about the characters... they were dreadfully false. Wim is a sorry sack of a man, who gives up what little promise he has to marry Pamela (the most dour and ill-tempered woman he could find). Then after she dies, and Wim contracts a terminal illness, he naturally flees to Pam's nearest relative: Leandra.The book's story line is gut-wrenchingly, heart-sickeningly, bone-crushingly melodramatic, and the dialogue (esp. Leandra's Southern "drawl") is stilted and forced.I realize that this is a mean and biting review... but this was one of the worst five books I have ever read. I had to respond.