This is only interesting to me
ILX + Martin Amis = truthiness
Martin Amis does look very good, though. In an awfully old-fashioned way. He's a Dead White Male bewildered to be alive.
I love Martin Amis's sentences. That's his talent. No-one writes better sentences. He just can't put them in the right order to make a great book (apart from Money)
I don't quite agree but the sentences, yes. The thing about MA was I would be sitting there reading a book of his, and there would be just one or two sentences in it that struck me as pure shining solid platinum heavenly genius. Which was plenty for me
the one about the girl on the streets is his best but i can't remember it's name - the brick thru teeth bit and the line about winter/feeling your money.
I ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT THIS BOOK. This is the first one I ever read by him. It's called Other People and I really liked it at the time
He certainly has an unnerving demeanour. Almost demonic, but not quite energetic enough.
There's a sort of weird fascination in watching him enter into this weird media pact to maul his personality by saying utterly dumb things in public. I mean, end-of-a-heavy-night-in-the-pub sort of things
so okay, no matter how much of a complete tool he becomes (and for this reason I am avoiding reading any of his recent work), I will still have a soft spot for Mr. Grouchyfaced Selfobsession
Martin Amis does look very good, though. In an awfully old-fashioned way. He's a Dead White Male bewildered to be alive.
I love Martin Amis's sentences. That's his talent. No-one writes better sentences. He just can't put them in the right order to make a great book (apart from Money)
I don't quite agree but the sentences, yes. The thing about MA was I would be sitting there reading a book of his, and there would be just one or two sentences in it that struck me as pure shining solid platinum heavenly genius. Which was plenty for me
the one about the girl on the streets is his best but i can't remember it's name - the brick thru teeth bit and the line about winter/feeling your money.
I ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT THIS BOOK. This is the first one I ever read by him. It's called Other People and I really liked it at the time
He certainly has an unnerving demeanour. Almost demonic, but not quite energetic enough.
There's a sort of weird fascination in watching him enter into this weird media pact to maul his personality by saying utterly dumb things in public. I mean, end-of-a-heavy-night-in-the-pub sort of things
so okay, no matter how much of a complete tool he becomes (and for this reason I am avoiding reading any of his recent work), I will still have a soft spot for Mr. Grouchyfaced Selfobsession