Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Smug and boring..

This novel trudges through the inane life of a run-down hotel in humdrum rural Ireland, celebrating its setting of quaint backwardness. From the start its meandering drone fails to pull you in, there is no hook. The showcase of dry wit and sarcasm becomes boring. The tone is one of smugness. The basis of this novel, ridiculing a stereotypical Englishman as inept and out of place, and a stereotypical Irish character as dashing and witty gets old.. Farrell's characters lack inner depth, their words and actions read like a stage-play.Perhaps I should have stoically continued indefinitely, but to me a novel should grab you by page 50 at least..but in this case I got to page 105, and still there was nothing to draw me in.