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Martin Amis
Birth date: August 25, 1949
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Calyre
Calyre rated it 5 years ago
Quand les gens bougent, quand ils se déplacent, ils regardent d'où ils viennent, pas où ils vont. Les êtres humains font vraiment toujours comme ça?Je n'éprouve presque plus l'effet de vertige habituel quand j'essaie de voir des choses qu'il ne regarde pas ou quand j'essaie de regarder des choses qu...
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it 7 years ago
Time is heading on toward something. It pours past unpreventably, like the reflection on a windshield as the car speeds through city or forest.Η τεχνική του Martin Amis δεν είναι εντελώς νέα· η αφήγηση από το παρόν προς το παρελθόν χρησιμοποιείται σε αρκετά κινηματογραφικά και λογοτεχνικά έργα, εντο...
CDRBill
CDRBill rated it 8 years ago
This is a prophetic story about the flooding of the world. The story and character development start slow but do get better. Ballard also introduces a twist that all creatures are devolving to their Triassic equivalent, including some humans, due to genetic memory.All in all this is a decent read if...
XOX
XOX rated it 9 years ago
The book is being described as arty, modern classic. And the sentences are quite nicely done. You got a feel of the characters and so on. I wanted so much to like this book because it is written by the best friend of the late Christopher Hitchens. Oh boy. I'm not really a literature person...
Randolph "Dilda" Carter
Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it 10 years ago
Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...
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