Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not a prize winner, for sure

This is a poor, contrived little book that appears to intentionally keep the reader distanced from the characters. Unfortunately, style has triumphed over content.The plot moves along at a reasonable pace in the first half, leaving the reader feeling vaguely satisfied, but the final fifty pages are dreadful. There simply isn't enough depth of characterisation to make us care in the slightest about the two main individuals and to sympathise with their predicaments. The final chapter is painful. Maybe, like one of his characters, Ian McEwan was running out of time.I fail to see any reason why `Amsterdam' should have won the 1998 Booker Prize. For me, it passed a few hours on a long train journey but don't expect anything deep and meaningful; you'll not find it here.