Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Morbid, Unfocused, Depressing

I'm all for what I'd call cynical-aesthetic if there seems to be a point to it - if there's a place that it's all leading me towards in terms of understanding human character or experience in this end-of-the millenium maelstrom we live in. But this novel, which starts well enough and kept me reading so I could find the point, just didn't have enough of one. (Yes it's tough being unloved by your parents and living with memories of a dead sibling in a world in which women are objectified, blah, blah, blah. But then what?] Makes me want to return to 19th century fiction frankly - or at least some of the 20th century writers who know about plot, character, and dare I say it, IDEAS! If you want existential female angst go back to Joan Didion's 'Play It as It Lays.' Now that's a book. Lucky Beth Nugent, though. The porn-show theme gets her published - earning her some money and some readers - which says more about our world than her novel does. Don't waste your money or time.