Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Get a blue pencil

Other reviewers comment that the story seems to ramble, that it proceeds at a leisurely pace, that it's plodding, and that it's overdone. Yeah, well, to me those are three good reasons not to buy this book. Hensher likes to hear himself talk, but why do you want to spend money to listen? I love to savor good historical fiction, but in this case I was skipping pages just to get the story moving. I usually pass books on to friends, but this book was such a frustrating reading experience that it went straight into the garbage.