Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Badly written, full of nonsense, bad jokes and cliches -- wouldn't have been published if it weren't by Sir McCartney

My son was given this book for Christmas. I didn't notice who it was by, just started reading it to my son, and then looked to see who the author was because it was so bad. I feel badly for Philip Ardagh because as a genuine writer of children's books, I'm sure he did what he could to make the book readable. I don't think Sir McCartney was taking many suggestions.