Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: cheap sentimentality

The emotions described here have all the weight and sincerity of drugstore greeting cards. The author is a TV sportswriter and it shows. I believe that the author had some genuine affection and devotion for Morrie, but he has not successfully captured that here. Instead, his prose comes across as shallow, manipulative and insincere. If I were the author, I'd take a year off and go live by myself in a remote cabin and re-write this book, ripping each word from my heart. This book here is just too facile, too TV-esque. The only thing that the author seems truly heartfuelt about is the awe in which he holds Ted Koppel and the Nightline program.