Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Characters disappoint, so not much interest in their stories

There are many stories trying to be told in thisnovel which reads to this reader like a project for a creative writing class. The stories might be worthwhile if there were anything interesting about the characters at all, but there isn't --without exception they are crashing bores. Andhow can we believe that following a plane crash which takes off part of a house, the owner's learnthat they are not insured for the loss and justtarp over the gaping hole. (Is this a symbol thatwent over my head?) The setting for the book isa small college town in Montana, and the author seems comfortable describing life there.Before I read this book, I thought I'd like to visit Montana. Now I think I'll just stay home.