Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Opined This Reviewer- Dreadfully Annoying

I made the mistake of buying all three of these books at once, based on their often being mentioned as the "American Flashmans". Well, they certainly shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath. The author has an extremely annoying habit of trying to use a different phrase for "he said" every time he records a conversation. He breathed, he whispered, he raged, he mumbled, he moaned, he shouted, he queried, he twittered, he giggled, he asked, he wondered, he stated, etc. ad nauseum. Once you notice (which didn't take long) his text becomes unreadable. Literally- I read twenty pages of the first, and the other two have never been opened.