Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This book is one LONG bore!

"Boy's Life" starts out with a good a premise and I have to say that McCammon does a good job setting up his mystery. Unfortunately, the book goes downhill from there. The book lose track of its central premise and loses itself on a bunch of unrelated, nonsensical tangents. The books loses the central plot for chapters at a time before comming back to it. McCammon seems almost self aware that his book just about a small town with murder mystery that just doesn't quite fit when the character of Vernon writes a book with a similar problem. This book would be at least a 4 star book if it got the point and was about 200 pages shorter. As a mystery novel, it just misses the mark.