Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Too self-aware of a writer

Was there a quota on similes? He seems to write one in almost every paragraph; it gets to be quite distracting and almost comical. "Like......like......like...." He starts to sound like a valley-girl. I guess I prefer the less "flowery" and more straight-forward westerns like the LONESOME DOVE books. This just got more and more annoying as I read. It is only the second book I have read by this author, the first being THE ROAD. That one was simpler and more intriguing, but still not the best thing I have read. I can understand why the academic elites celebrate this author; he writes with that "I am a great writer" self consciousness that those people love. I find it boring and condescending. This will probably be the last book I read by McCarthy. He is simply not my cup of tea.