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

Like Susanna Clarke, many of the reviewers here take too many words to get to the point: "a book to savor, not devour," "will reward the patient reader," and the like.Here's the short course: boring. Some decent fantasy larded with lots and lots of genuinely second-rate Jane Austen. I can't believe this author is also an editor -- if there was ever a book that needed a red pencil, this is it.If you want riveting fantasy, read Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. No patience required.Charles Edwards