Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Did the director even read the book?

This has to be one of the worst adaptations of a book that I have ever seen. The movie is inconsistent and inaccurate with the book. They change the events as well as people and places in almost every scene of the movie. Worst of all it seems that they didn't even understand the book. The book wasn't just about Jullian, and his struggles. In my opinnion the focus of the book was Clay, and how he and none of his friends were happy. They had everything, and they cared about nothing. Everyone was just distant and estranged. The movie failed badly at capturing this. Clay's family wasn't even in the movie for god's sake. To top it all off they changed the ending. You can't change the ending of a famous piece of literature. There should be a rule to keep amature filmakers like this guy from doing that. Bottom line...they [messed] it up. The book isn't about Jullian. I guess they couldn't pass up on letting Robert Downy jr be himself.