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Kingsley Amis
Birth date: 1922-04-16
Died: 1995-10-22
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 8 years ago
“No wife who finds her husband addicting himself to science fiction need fear that he is in search of an erotic outlet, anyway not an overt one.” In "New Maps of Hell" by Kingsley Amis To put it in another context, imagine I'd be teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald to undergraduates, some of whom woul...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 9 years ago
An anthology of 22 short comedic pieces, I picked this up on impulse at a UBS, because I'd never read any of the authors before (correction: I've read Wodehouse) and there were more than a couple names here that I'd often felt like I should have read, but hadn't; I was afraid they'd be weighty and, ...
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 10 years ago
I tend to be very unfair to comic (humorous) novels, I have this unreasonable demand that every page makes me laugh. Quite a tall order for the poor authors I think, but I can’t help it, so I generally avoid reading comic novels. I stumbled upon an audiobook of Lucky Jim on Youtube and thought I’d g...
so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it 10 years ago
Adequate alternate if-the-Nazis-had won history. A little too long to be an effective story and a little too thin for novel-length, but the theme of being hunted works well enough.
XLeptodactylous
XLeptodactylous rated it 10 years ago
Yes, but Kindle.
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