wow. just. wow. It's almost as if after The Information Martin Amis disappeared and was replaced by some lamer version of himself. I don't know what this book is for -- it sorta extends his autobiography, Experience, and it sorta is a history lesson (but not really). I like it because people often ...
Amis on Stalin. Not a scholarly work, as many people have pointed out, and is it still necessary to debunk Stalin? But I thought it was a successful book. You think you know how bad Stalin was, but, in fact, most people don't. At least, I didn't, and I've read Solzhenitsyn. My favorite part was the ...