Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: superfluous

There's no need to read this book. Stanley Kubrick's "2001" is one of the great films of the twentieth century. Arthur C. Clarke's "2001" is deeply ordinary. The things that make a film great a different from the things that make a book great, and a book that dumbly follows its parent film's lead cannot amount to much. I can think of one, and only one, (weak) reason to read this: if you are curious about all the weird stuff at the end of the movie, Clarke offers an explanation, of sorts. But I keep forgetting just what the explanation is. Kubrick's images are indelible.