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by Martin Amis
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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...
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
True irony is so difficult to achieve, but it's developed to beautiful effect here by Martin Amis. With the reversal of time, every act of destruction becomes an act of creation. Every wound becomes a healing. And the opposite is also true, of course. He spends time walking backwards through the...
Cecily's book reviews
Cecily's book reviews rated it 13 years ago
A short book that is one long gimmick: clever as a writing exercise, but not worth publishing or reading. Once the novelty of a backwards story has worn off, there is little point to it and I lost interest (though I did finish it). And it's not even that novel: Kurt Vonnegut had the same idea as a b...
JulieM
JulieM rated it 15 years ago
This book starts out with the main character dying. The big twist is that he then lives his life backwards. Since it is the same life, he doesn't get to make any decisions, but instead observe his own life. What an interesting story! How would we judge our own lives if we lived them in reverse?
Dr Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets
Dr Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets rated it 17 years ago
The kind of book that bothers some people because the author's efforts are so constant and obvious, but wonderful. I still marvel at Amis's ability to write an entire novel backwards. But I also appreciate his ability to keep the book manageable. It's a book you need to learn to read and once you "g...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 20 years ago
I read this book while I was living in Oslo on 2005.Then, for some reason I forgot to add it to my booklist. It might have been amnesia.After all in those five months I spent in old Christiania my attention was diverted by many things. I recall the London bombings, hurricane Katrina and its aftermat...
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 26 years ago
A strange but impressive novel about a man who is experiencing time in reverse. Observations about romantic relationships and about eating in reverse are mostly for laughs, but when we reach the part about the man's career in Nazi Germany we see how inverted morality becomes when time is going in t...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 28 years ago
Not my favourite Amis. The idea of telling the story backwards is clever, but I never really warmed to it. I think it's a device that works better in a movie, e.g. Memento or 5x2.
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