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This book is awesome, highly readable and very funny. Some of the lines had me laughing out loud and the rest had me sniggering. ENJOY! I am going to search out the rest of this guys work - what have i been missing?
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I am not a bookworm and do not read as half as many books as I should, but what i would like to say is typed below. When one is reading any book from any one of the BILLIONS of titles available worldwide, you have have to consider the images protrayed in ones imagination. Every individuals is different, but if a author such as M Amis can move me as much as he did by "money" im sure he can do the same for you. Just read it.
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Once an Amis fan, always an Amis fan. Money is quite possibly one of the best novels I've ever read, nevermind that it's an Amis novel. He opens up existential angst in the broadest, most heartbreaking and accessible way, that it makes movies seem just plain irrelevant.
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In this novel I believe Martin Amis truely achieves the classic he says he has always strived towards. The raw ironic humour of his writing and the depiction of the main character John Self is an apt snapshot of part of modern urban life. Self is a self obsessed, sex-addict alchoholic not having the ability to truley care for someone (including himself)in any wholesome way due to obsession with success in the form of 'Money'. Even though he is in the movie buisness he doesn't really care for it as long as he gets the big contract. For me this tends to reflect Self as being analogous to our urban working society as it becomes more important to people to have objects of desire rather than the human basics of affection, comfort and wellbeing. He seems to suggest a belief that man has not evolved but in recent times has begun to devolve in character and spirit.
In general it is gripping, shockingly hilarious at times and a story which should make those who encounter it reflect on their lives and ask the question 'Do I need this pair of Armani underpants or should i have a quiet night in with my shhweetheart instead'..........I go for the night in every time.
Also, who ever said you need to watch stand-up comedy to hear great one-liners. Just read this instead. (One worrying point about it though is that I have never met a female who liked this book ?).
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I wouldn't even give it one star. The best word I can find to describe this book is cheesey. It's about as compelling as a car wreck. I'm wondering how to get rid of it. I can't recommend it to a friend. It's not even amusing, just dumb and kind of annoying, especially a few pages before 78, when the narrator mentions the author, Martin Amis, by name, as someone whose stalking him. Just dumb.
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