Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A waste of time

The book is sweet -- saccharine sweet. It is also completely predictable, badly edited and, well, stupid. Could someone please come up with an idea that is at least approaching original? This one certainly isn't. It is full of cliches -- the good, dying mother; the workaholic dad who believes that money will make his family love him; the poor (and dirty and ragged) little boy who just wants to give his mom one last Christmas gift; the meddling mother; the long-suffering wife who doesn't want to be lonely anymore. The basic premise is a cliche -- how the workaholic was shown what Christmas is all about by a little boy who has nothing and is about to lose his mother. A cliched plot might be OK, if it were carried out with a little finesse, but, sadly, it isn't. Don't bother with this book. If you want a good Christmas story, grab a copy of "A Christmas Carol" instead. Same basic plot, better writing.