Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: pretty shocking....yawn

Bret Easton Ellis' first novel (Less than Zero) reads like the first draft of a ninth graders book report. This novel isn't much better. Full of one-dimensional characters, empty dialog that leads nowhere and exposes nothing but the obvious, and completely unbelievable situations. Not to mention lazy writing; it's painfully obvious Ellis has absolutely no idea what goes on on a day-to-day basis on Wall Street. Or at least he didn't bother to show us -- to actually flesh out the main character so we could understand a method to his madness. Oh well. I guess if he did, he might not have room for the Genesis album reviews or to re-hash the scenes from his first novel, Less than Zero. Conclusion: Ellis just isn't ambititious or talented enough to pull something like this off with any success.