Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Thought provoking, although somewhat formulaic.

I was going to release this book into the wild (...) without reading it but I read the first few pages and got sucked in. I think that the first part of the book is pretty good, right up to where PinBack has to feed the ship alien mascot. Then it gets alittle slapstick in places.Since the book was essentially about a bunch of bored lonely men confined to a space ship and therefore a bit light on action, I would have liked to have alittle more character development... The same aspects of each character were described repeatedly and the writing was a bit formulaic. But it was a good read, with a thought provoking ending.