What do you guys think of Martin Amis? I just picked up a copy

>>9822286

I thought The Zone of Interest was, well, interesting. Nothing spectacular.

he has a cool voice

>>9822286
His best friend was Hitchens. That's all i know.

>>9822286

More like Martin ANUS

>>9822286
I only read Koba the dread and he was such a whiny lil bitch I'll never try anything else.

Money is hillarious. I really enjoyed it.

interesting social critic/pubic intellectual every so often.

He hasn't written anything worthwhile in an embarrassingly long time

>>9822286
Money is very funny and perverted; Time's Arrow is pretty fooking wild; His essays on pornography and 9/11 are pretty fire; I wanna read London Fields, the Rachel Papers, and probably one more; He's got a book of essays, forget what it's callled, but the one on Ulysses is pretty fire bars; peep him for sure

>1980s British lit- Beatles
>Salman Rushdie - John
>Ian McKewan - Paul
>Martin Amis - George
>Julian Barnes - Ringo lmao

>>9823031
>>9823184
Glad to hear. I'm looking forward to reading it sooner now.

>>9823031
Zone of Interest is one of his best.

I've only read "The Information" thus far. It's about a failed alcoholic writer and his resentment towards his highly bland, highly successful friend. Highly average tbqh

>>9823184
>Time's Arrow is pretty fooking wild

a professor of mine once recommended it and said the idea of exploring time backwards is done very originally in the book. I don't know if I can stomach any more holocaust literature anymore, however. It's become such a banal subject in historical novels, it decreasing emotional impact and is becoming a sort of cheap signifier than an actual event in most books that deal with it.

I think he provides blurb vor Nabokov books. That's probably all he's good for. Never read him though.

I'm a fan of his dad, Lucky Jim made me laugh out loud.

>>9823925
Kingsley Amis? Isn't he black?

>>9822286
Money is one of the scariest books I've read

it perfectly captures the feeling of dread the morning after getting blackout drunk, when you know you've done something terrible that you will never remember

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>>9823931
He's the most Anglo-Saxon lad that ever lived.

His work 'Everyday Drinking' is also worth a read if you're an alcoholic or something.

normie author

>>9823955
not really

Money is only meaningful to the people who have been in those fucked-up situations

>>9823947
Alc lit is my favourite. I'll put him on the list.

>>9823931
you're thinking of stephen amos probably

>>9823947
>>9823972
read "to a baby born without limbs", it's pure literary shitposting

>>9822286

I read London fields recently. I like the grotesque nature of his characters, he mixes realistic characteristics with just enough sordidness without making them feel like cheap caricatures.
It feels like it was written as an amusement for himself, a way to fill the time, to stretch his mind. Toying with form and humour, brilliantly done but not much more to it than that.

Of his father all I've read is lucky Jim which is fantastic

Kingsley starts off as a leftist and ends up a clubbable old bore, whiskey in hand, Daily Mail rantings.

>>9823343
times arrow was painfully banal desu didn't enjoy it at all

might as well go read slaughterhouse v if you think times arrow is original. your prof sounds like a hack

>>9824662
>your prof sounds like a hack

any professor that gives me the highest grade in the class for a 10 page essay that I wrote in the same day before class is probably a hack, I agree. He seemed genuine in my opinion, he had some really obscure (decent) tastes