Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ho-hum: Koontz makes haste slowly.

Koontz takes well over one-fourth of the book's 600 plus pages just to set the opening scene (dozens of pages alone for the car crash, Barty's birth and hospital stay) which led me to wonder how he was ever going to get to the end of the week, let alone Barty's thirteenth birthday. Despite being a long-time Koontz reader, I felt a lot of the suspense and disbelief I experienced was more about Koontz's glacial pacing than about the story. Koontz seemed to realize how long the project was getting and sped things up about 300 pages into the book but not for the better since the climactic encounter with the villain and our saintly heroes occurs 600 pages in and lasts for only a couple of paragraphs. That's it! The whole point of the book - the encounter between good and evil - and its over in a blink and a push! I feel Koontz just started typing without a real goal in mind until he neared his 600 page contract requirement and decided to wrap things up.