Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Starts out great, ends flat

After 50 pages I was thinking that this is the kind of book I would buy for my friends and make them read it for their own good. But once the story turned fantastic it really bombs. Other writers have put the magical into ordinary circumstances and wrote great books ("The Master & Margarita" or stuff by Shirley Jackson), but this guy basically wrote an episode of the "Twilight Zone". The main character is the most unlikeable guy I've come accross since I read "The Fountainhead". He is a whiney, selfish, self centered, un-clever Hawkeye Pierce from MASH, and since he is the narrator, he is in every page and every sentence. The author basically stops writing the best character, Saxony, like he got bored with her. This book has some great stuff, but mostly it seems uninteresting baloney that would sit nicely next to "Peace Like A River".