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Originally Posted by evollove
Me too. Almost. I did finish MONEY and maybe a few others.
Can't get through LONDON FIELDS, PREGNANT WIDOW and a number of others which have been collecting dust on my shelves for years.
Sentence by sentence, I usually find him great. String those sentences together, and I have trouble paying full attention. Weird.
But if asked, I'd say I like him.
This week, I've been dipping into a book of essays by him now and then actually.
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I find his essays slightly more tolerable but Money and London Fields (which I've never finished either) both seem like the work of a stylist trying to make some kind of social point about a world he clearly has neither an eye or ear for. And I just find his weird (what I can only describe as) transatlantic 'voice' too contrived to endure for any length of time. I get the whole 'an excessive book about excess' thing but I never get the feeling Amis has any real insight into the worlds he tries to satirise.