Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: NOT worth the effort

I had such high hopes for this book. The next "great American novel". The last 2 chapters were by far the best, although I have to say not worth the preceding 450 pages. The characters were developed to varying degrees of completeness such that by page 567 I was still being surprised by their actions. I couldn't bear to finish the thing in one reading and had to stop in the middle for a rest. Get the thing on tape or ask a friend about it. Too heavy to carry around for what it winds up being worth.