Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Laborious Journey

In my forty plus years of reading critically acclaimed fiction, I have only given up on two books in mid-read. "The Walking Tour" was not one of these, although I gave it careful consideration at about page 140. In the end, I found the novel to be an extremely laborious journey to a less than satisfying plot/conclusion; containing characters with whom I never really did empathize. The writing style and use of grammatical person appeared to me to be more "gimmicky" and disoriented then creative/innovative. I believe this was Ms. Davis' first novel. I hope her succeeding works prove more rewarding.