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Review ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ó Martin Amis Free read ↠ Heavy Water and Other Stories É PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Martin Amis Ó 2 Read These nine stories span a period from 1975 to 1997 and are a good reflection of the range of Martin Amis's writing which is always skillful and consistently seductive sometimes irritatingly so Amis lures his reader into an intense interest in his characters and then in some unsettling way encourages us to patronize or disparage them It's an odd strategy but it holds our attention By making us uncomfortable about our own less admirable attitudes he fo. Apart from the odd brilliant one liner It was the kind of sentence that spent a lot of time in reverse gear before crunching itself into first and naughty joke I can t say I found much nourishment here Often with Amis the catalyst for his work seems to be a joke It was an inspiration that worked well for him with his middle period novels A literary writer jealous of his hack writer friend s massive success and his backfiring determination to do him harm Using a proficiency at darts to evoke the paucity of cultural aspiration in the Britain of the 1990s Deploying a narrative that runs backwards to write about the Holocaust Some of these stories too are founded on a joke What if poets made huge bucks and sci fi screenwriters had to publish their work in pokey magazines What if most people in the world were gay and straight people were vilified The problem for me was he failed to animate or give much depth to any of these comic inversions The story with the most scope for vituperative social criticism and pathos follows a woman and her down syndrome son on a cruise But even this turned out to be a bit boring The final story was unreadable Safe to say the short story and Martin Amis is not a match made in heaven I ve made a promise to myself to revisit Amis this year to discover to what extent my youthful enthusiasm now seems warranted

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Review ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ó Martin Amis Free read ↠ Heavy Water and Other Stories É PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Martin Amis Ó 2 Read Ast Ender trying to sort out his life at his small son's sports day but we are nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as Let Me Count the Times have not stood the test of time and Amis's tales of literary agents aspiring novelists and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie Still when he is on form Amis's work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing Lisa Jardine co. Several years ago perhaps many years ago I decided Martin Amis s fiction was not worth reading because he was a snarky Brit who wasn t all that funny despite his barbed wit and talent for replicating the various accents of Britain s various social classes Then I came back to Amis a few years ago and read some novels I liked because they were full rounded comical but serious Now I ve made the mistake of trying to read a collection of Amis s stories called Heavy Water that comprises tales written from the 70s into the 90s I suppose I wanted to see if I was wrong when I first wrote him off Well I wasn t It s just that over time he has become a much better writer Back then Martin Amis wrote stories as if they were basically jokes He d develop a counterfactual conceit for instance that poems were treated like blockbusters by Hollywood moguls and explore how weird that would be Pretty weird Or he would spin out a tale told by a janitor on Mars eager to communicate with earth or earthlings Or he would describe a world in which the gays dominated the scene and the heterosexuals the hets were forced to play the role of the gays mocked dissed what have you Lots of upside down and inside out stuff Wouldn t it be funny if this Wouldn t it be funny if that I won t belabor the point One can see even in Amis s early stories the striking wit gift with words and images and pulsing cultural awareness that ultimately made him a significant writer But he wasn t really interesting he was the son of a better known writer who worked his way through his apprenticeship and kept going Good for him Skip the early stuff and read what he s writing now Guide de généalogie en Anjou et Poitou-Charentes-Vendée nevertheless compelled to find out what will become of him Familiar stories about obsessive bad sex such as Let Me Count the Times have Cuisine de l'Anjou: De A à Z not stood the test of time and Amis's tales of literary agents aspiring Châteaux et forteresses du Moyen Age en Val de Loire : Touraine, Anjou, Berry, Orléanais, Vendômois, marche bretonne novelists and spoiled bestseller writers may only interest an inner coterie Still when he is on form Amis's work is as deeply alluring as it is amusing Lisa Jardine co. Several years ago perhaps many years ago I decided Martin Amis s fiction was La maison rurale dans le Maine et le Haut Anjou not worth reading because he was a snarky Brit who wasn t all that funny despite his barbed wit and talent for replicating the various accents of Britain s various social classes Then I came back to Amis a few years ago and read some Anjou, Touraine novels I liked because they were full rounded comical but serious Now I ve made the mistake of trying to read a collection of Amis s stories called Heavy Water that comprises tales written from the 70s into the 90s I suppose I wanted to see if I was wrong when I first wrote him off Well I wasn t It s just that over time he has become a much better writer Back then Martin Amis wrote stories as if they were basically jokes He d develop a counterfactual conceit for instance that poems were treated like blockbusters by Hollywood moguls and explore how weird that would be Pretty weird Or he would spin out a tale told by a janitor on Mars eager to communicate with earth or earthlings Or he would describe a world in which the gays dominated the scene and the heterosexuals the hets were forced to play the role of the gays mocked dissed what have you Lots of upside down and inside out stuff Wouldn t it be funny if this Wouldn t it be funny if that I won t belabor the point One can see even in Amis s early stories the striking wit gift with words and images and pulsing cultural awareness that ultimately made him a significant writer But he wasn t really interesting he was the son of a better known writer who worked his way through his apprenticeship and kept going Good for him Skip the early stuff and read what he s writing Val de Loire: Anjou, Touraine, Orléanais, Berry (Guides géologique régionaux) now

Review ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ó Martin Amis Free read ↠ Heavy Water and Other Stories É PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Martin Amis Ó 2 Read Cuses us intently on his story line In Coincidence of the Arts the targets are the feckless painter Sir Rodney Peel and his black doorman aspiring novelist Pharsin Courier who turns to him for artistic encouragement When Peel embarks on a curious affair with a black waitress it is sheer coincidence that she should happen to be Pharsin's wife The conseuences reflect well on neither man In State of England we smirk knowingly at Big Mal a bullshitting E. In a parallel universe a talentless but commercially successful poetaster pulls down the Big Bucks with his sonnet Sonnet and is f ted lauded and jet setted about ceaselessly by the boys in Development while his impoverished and ignored counterpart struggles to place his screenplay with one of the many The Little Magazines of this world Its title Offensive From uasar 13 In Amis s mock dystopic vision the poets would finally get to legislate the hell out of Mankind and the brain dead papmeisters of Hollywood would get their due comeuppance Or would they Screenwriters were already the lowest form of life in Tinseltown anyhow and in the story as in life the Moguls still manage to find a way to get rich on something on anything for Business life s one real constant iswasever shall be Business after all and if you couldn t get the born every minute suckers to pay to see a movie then you could sell em something else anything perhaps even Jesus Capital P Poetry for Chrissakes This story Career Move is worth the price of admission alone in this somewhat uneven but always inventive collection Recommended for Amis fans but not for first timers Or screenwriters