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Many thanks, Martin. Peace.

A REMARKABLE MIND.

My favorite writer

If I could write like anyone in the world, living or departed... it would be Martin Amis. “The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” ― Martin Amis

Interesting that when he gave this interview he’d already started work on his great autobiographical novel - Inside Story - which amazingly is even better than Experience, London Fields, The Pregnant Widow and The Information. Amis is worth re-reading again and again and that’s not something U can say about many writers

A brilliant mind, loved Experience and liked Pregnant Widow and Rachel Papers. Money and Success - not so much. Yellow Dog I read and I can honestly say I had no clue what it was about. Unfathomable. I read it again a while later - was still none the wiser. And I consider myself fairly well educated, and enjoyed Joyce's Ulysses for the most part. So, it really takes some doing that to write something so impenetrable as Yellow Dog - I don't know if that was his intention - but I wouldn't recommend it as a recipe for any upcoming novelist. Amis as a person and intellect I admire and like very much - but as a novelist he is probably my least favourite of his generation of Brits. Faulks, Ishiguro, Kureshi, Barnes, are all significantly superior. Amis has flashes of brilliance, and is perhaps peerless in his use of profound and insightful metaphor. But I don't think he is a naturally gifted story teller/novelist.

Need to re-read Yellow Dog. Though Amis had flashes of brilliance think he was 2nd rate compared to Houellebecq but if he was 2nd rate it's was in a 4th rate country UK. That clique around him wrong type of left comfort zone insiders. You don't really care about his characters. Married a Jew. But he certainly got that arc of chav to lower middle class Thatcher generation of scum. For all his elitism and expensive dental work he did know the street. RIP Martin Amis. 🎉🎉

What a drama queen . 911 happened every day for Palestinians for decades. They still love their children etc