Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A paint-by-the-numbers effort

Crichton is intelligent and well educated, qualities that are manifest in his story lines and in the technical details of his books. But he has a long way to go as a writer, a fact that is painfully evident here. The premise is interesting, but there is not a character real enough to care about and the writing is pedestrian. I simply lost interest half way through the book.