Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Barely worth finishing.

While this isn't amoung the worst books I've ever read, it is one of the worst that I ever finished. As an avid fan of the horror genre, I was anxious to enjoy the first novel of the writer everyone was talking about. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I found myself hoping that it would get a little worse so I could justify not finishing it.