Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Read for the laughs and you'll leave with the message.

It took a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease for Michael Beetner to finally realize his youthful ambition: to write an opinion column. Such a circumstance is unfortunate to say the least, but the resulting essays are informative, inspiring and downright funny.Beetner's writing style combines pointed humor and plain common sense in the best American story-telling tradition of Will Rogers and Mark Twain. There's a lot to be learned in this deceptively thin paperback. Fortunately, the reading experience is sufficiently pleasant to repeat as often as needed.I look forward to more work by Michael Beetner in the future.