Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ok, I get it. It's a joke. Who wrote this? Really?

No one talks like themselves. The three known characters involved, Skeeve, Aahz, and Tanda... they barely even ACT like themselves. Basic rules of magic (that the person who uses a disguise spell can't see it, that the sources of magic are called 'force lines') are just forgotten about. Completely. Everything sounds stilted and phony, and no one seems to want to use contractions or sound at all natural. Aahz in particular has been replaced by a poorly realized doppleganger of himself, and the interplay between the two main characters is completely spoiled.This is almost WORSE than the new "Phule" books, because this is supposed to be Asprin himself. I guess Asprin doesn't even know how to write Asprin books anymore.If there's another book in this series, I'm getting it at the library before I even think about buying it.