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Daniel Oppenheimer's avatar

This is great. I came to Amis through the Moronic Inferno (I think some of the essays from that are in the collection you're reviewing), and fucking loved him. Then I read The Information and was like, 'meh.' But I like your suggestion that he needed to write the novels to be Martin Amis, that somehow they were essential to the overall project even if they weren't as good as the criticism. Like Hitchens he got much worse toward the end; I always thought with both of them the fundamental problem was that they didn't keep growing as people.

p.s. you'll always be bp to me

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H.K. Green's avatar

Excellent, thought-provoking, I have little to immediately add after reading except that I would love to read your proposed part 2 (Rachel Papers/Money/Inside Story) and in case you’ve never seen it before, this hilarious (and, though I’m not a huge fan of the novel, hilariously uncharitable) review of “The Information” by none other than Iain Sinclair.

https://martinamisweb.com/pre_2006/sinclaironamis.htm

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