Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Slumming author wastes time of both of us

The Innocent pretentiously invites a comparison with Kafka's The Castle, and then belabors it over 200 pages that prove satisfactory as neither serious novel or spy yarn. The point that spy work is often absurd has been made, thank you very much, dozens of times before; and the main character is such an astonishing drip and dolt (taking up with an East German woman who practically has Mata Hari stamped on her forehead) that it's impossible to care about his progress from virgin idiot to non-virgin idiot. Some will no doubt say that that's the point of the book, that Leonard is a real character, not a Follett-Ludlum (or even Greene-LeCarre) fantasy. To me, the fantasy is that he could have survived Basic Training without getting killed by either his own stupidity or his fellow recruits for the good of England....