Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Thoroughly pretentious...

The Booker Prize Committee got hoodwinked. A writing style entirely lacking in subtlety and full of bad metaphors (one character compares her step-mother to a barge...); far-fetched plot divices; self-absorbed, unlikeable characters with no voices of their own (they all speak like the poet Ondaatje). Now I know why I disliked the movie so much...