Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A quick read is this book's only saving grace.

A couple of hours of my life that I will never regain. A potentially cute Christmas farce that falls flat and is poorly executed. The characters suffer from severe one dimensionality and Grisham's concept of character development seems to involve nothing more than a number of sentences of which punctuation is the only common element. Perhaps most disappointing is the racist undertone near the end of the book, where quite a bit of attention is paid to the skin color of a central character.If you were interested in reading a well written book with a similar concept of a husband interested in living outside the norms of society, you might try Nick Hornby's "How To Be Good." At least he makes an effort at literature and is not merely killing trees.