Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bloated and Boring

THE GREAT HUNT is bloated and boring. I'm not sure why this book even needed to be an entire book in itself. The plot is so slow and the developments are so minimal--so much of it is needless dialogue--that it easily could have been summarazed and folded into another novel as back story. Or at least much of it could have been. I loved EYE OF THE WORLD and read it in 3 days. This one has taken me more than three weeks to read. I hope THE DRAGON REBORN is better, much better. If not, I don't think I'll waste my time with the rest of the series. I've recently read George R. R. Martin's SONG OF ICE AND FIRE novels (the three that are available). Robert Jordan ought to take some lessons from him. Martin is a truly magnificent writer. Jordan isn't even a close runner up.