RIP Martin Amis.

[andrewc]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/20/books/martin-amis-dead.html   


I read London Fields, Success & Money back in the 80's but nothing since. 

[rogerzilla]

He didn't write anything truly great after those, but didn't need to.  All three are brilliant.

[T42]

I read just about everything Kingsley wrote, so when I first saw one of Martin's I grabbed it.  Didn't like it - expecting more of his father, I suppose - and never read another. Come to think of it there was one of Kingsley's too that so annoyed me that I tore it in half and chucked it in the bath.

[Mr Larrington]

I, otoh, hated “London Fields” enough that I was never ever tempted to read anything else he'd ever written.

[rogerzilla]

I've just read London Fields for about the sixth time.  I still think it's almost perfect.  Maybe it would be better without the Mark Asprey stuff, which isn't really needed (the initials aren't a coincidence - Amis putting himself into his own novels was one of his conceits).