Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: First 180 pages were good...but....

I liked the 1st 180 pages of this book as pure escapist entertainment. The setting was interesting and I thought the author did a good job of putting the reader into it. The characters were at least adequate for the escapist nature of the book. But then...the author went of the deep end with some pretty hokey ESP stuff, and from then on I just couldn't buy any of the developments(unfortunately, I had already bought the book.) I also found it a bit disturbing that the author glossed over the marsupial-to-aboriginal Australians connection.