Other People - Martin Amis

Time's Arrow - Martin Amis

a big point to this little book, it's not a comedy by any means. And little book it is too, coming in at well under two hundred pages. Martin Amis' Time's Arrow is written in an easy, conversational way - the narrator inside Tod talks straight at you and so it's an accessible, effortless read. Yet it's clever too - Amis has a wide vocabulary and a precise way of using it. I'm not sure how he marries these two things - it's hard to make difficult words easy to read - but somehow he does. Time's Arrow will make you laugh because of the witty, acute, sometimes nasty observation about a world going the wrong way, but at the same time ...

Experience - Martin Amis

Whatever he writes Martin Amis always likes to work the reader hard. This can be a delight for those who like his literary trickery but it can be rather grueling for the dedicated skimmer. Not surprisingly his auto-biography is of a similar hue and its non-linear structure makes it seem like an overview of indeed; his ...

Experience - Martin Amis

him. Footnotes were often longer than the main text and could (and should) have been incorporated. They drew the reader away from the story that the author was trying to tell. Maybe this is why I felt little cohesion between Amis's life and the anxious snippets that he related. The book now collects dust on by bookshelf. I may lend it to somebody and not ask for it back. Sorry, Mister Amis, this one wasn't for me. ...