by Martin Amis
I managed to finish this but only just - I really disliked the protagonist, the story got on my nerves, the language was not enjoyable and at no time did the character development make the ending plausible. The set-up had some promise, so 2** for that.
The experience of reading Money was sad, pathetic, funny—though I hated to laugh—shallow and stupid, then, just as I slipped into a careless ignorance and began to judge it, wrongly, glimmers emerged of rare depth and perceptiveness of certain segments of humanity, and although those segments are no...
Lookit this edition! Penguin Ink, it's called.
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First you need to go back to the quote that starts my review of The Moonstone. Betteredge argues that it is a real problem for the rich that they are idle. Well, Martin Amis takes that premise and doesn't just see the raise, he goes all in. But his setting isn't high society 19th century England. It...
The problem with this book is that there is a certain fundamental incoherence with it in that it is written in the first person but the protagonist does not have the right kind of personality to engage in the kind of reflection, or to make the kind of observations or to use the kind of literary lang...
The first 1/4 and the last 1/4 of this book were interesting to me. The big chunk in the middle bored me to tears.
Not for the fainthearted or easily shocked - but if you don't fall into one of those categories, an absolutely first-rate comic novel. Impossible to forget John Self, surely one of the most unattractive anti-heroes ever.
Money, the 365 page suicide note of a wannabe film maker from old London town, is ablaze with dazzling sentences. Though the three clause invective probably wasn't invented by Martin (or his pop) it is as though it were created just for him to exploit. His diatribes against everything will crease yo...
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