Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Left me feeling empty

Martin Amis is not what you would call a "generous" writer. Talented, perhaps. Witty or original, maybe. But not generous. He frequently strings together words and sentences that sparkle and dazzle with their elegance, that sing to the ear in a very satisfying way. But there's just something about his writing that makes me think that he wasn't doing it for us, the readers. He was doing it for himself. There's no emotional connection between author and reader in this book. At the end I was left feeling like I had been made love to by a skilled yet uncaring lover, a narcissist who performs her act not for my pleasure but for the satisfaction of watching herself in the mirror. I want and deserve more than that from a writer. Writing is more than just putting words down on a page, more than just creating characters and plots. Writing is about the relationship between author and reader, and that's what is missing here.