In this task, you are given books product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.

[EX Q]: Ugh... . I usually like Deaver's stories, but I actually only made it through half of the book...then tossed the thing. I am not crazy about the subject matter when it involves children (even if they are at the teen stage). Should have paid more attention to the info at the back of the book. And I definitely don't need to have obscenities every sentence. My mother always stated that people who swore constantly had nothing of interest to say. I find this to be true, even in my choice of literature. My time on this earth is too short to waste reading this type of material.     So I am a prude...    Karen Sadle
[EX A]: NEG

[EX Q]: Writer is a cad . I expected this book to be fun take on the Hollywood nanny experience where the reader can peek at the "other side" and perhaps try to guess who might be the real people behind the pseudonyms.  Nope.  Susanne Hansen is a cad who betrays her former employers (and her nanny friends' employers) by exposing their private family dynamics for entertainment and ridicule.  It would have been much, MUCH better had she changed names and focused more on the celebrity lifestyle gossipy end of it than in her own boring self-examinations and snotty judgements.  In every page she obsesses over wealth and then condemns the very people whose assets she admires.  She seems to think that shallow and neglectful parenting is something only to be found in the nanny-hiring set.  There was no joy in reading this book once I realized that while she may have changed the children's names, the names of the parents were quite real.  It puts the lie to how much she felt for her charges that she would so humiliate their parents in pursuit of the almighty dollar
[EX A]: NEG

[EX Q]: US Centric - Not for Ex-Pats Living & Working at Country Ops . Long time reviewer, first time critiquer.  Enough to move me to take time out of my precious schedule to write.  As an American living and working abroad for a US based pharmaceutical company, the working mother lifestyle is entirely different.  The 100 Best Companies to Work only applies to the U.S. headquarters.  The reality is different for the subsidiary or country operations, where resources are limited and the culture is not supportive of the "flextime" approach.  In fact it is worst, because country operations are forced to "nudge" the books and offer what they call contractual permanent roles (not the equivalent as an employee role), which deprive the working mother of the necessary benefits needed to achieve a work-life balance.  As an American living in Australia, I am appalled, if not dismayed by this severe discrepancy.  For Ex-Pats living abroad, don't be fooled by the list.
[EX A]:
NEG