Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Tedious

This book is a tedious read. The book starts promising: Bird's wife and daughter are brutally murdered and Bird (an ex-policeman and alcoholist) is (most of the time) busy finding the person who did it. The first 100 pages or so the book keeps you spellbound.Looks like a winner ... ? Well, eventually it is not. Bird keeps meeting many (too many) new characters page after page. He travels from place to place, with numerous flashbacks. The murderer is a real lunatic. He kills and strips the victims in various awful ways. But it is all too much ! This book is too complicated, and it lacks a real thrill. There is no focus. This book sure is a page-turner, in that way that you want to finish this book as soon as possible so you can read another, better one.