Review - Money
I feel conflicted about how to rate Money, by Martin Amis. I didn't actually like it, so I don't want to give it three stars, but it interested me more than it simply being okay. I'm really not a fan of post-modernism in general -- I dislike being constantly pulled out of the story and reminded that it is a story, and I don't get on well with the whole "look how clever I am" sentiment. Still, it is undeniably quite clever. The narrator has a very distinctive voice, and it's deliberately a needy one, always asking questions of the reader, directly addressing the reader. You get pretty uncomfortably close to the narrator at times. John Self is an unreliable narrator to the extreme, although extremely candid about it, so you know all along things are not as they seem.
I'm actually thinking of writing my essay on this book, now I've finished reading it, which is odd since last week I was swearing I'd never write on a post-modernist text. Either way, I'm glad I finally finished the whole book -- it was worth reading, and a little challenging, which is a good thing. I like being pulled out of my happy world of speculative fiction and fantasy sometimes.
I'm actually thinking of writing my essay on this book, now I've finished reading it, which is odd since last week I was swearing I'd never write on a post-modernist text. Either way, I'm glad I finally finished the whole book -- it was worth reading, and a little challenging, which is a good thing. I like being pulled out of my happy world of speculative fiction and fantasy sometimes.