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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

London Fields, Martin Amis

 

London Fields by Martin Amis

Started: 9/7/2023
Completed: 9/12/2023
Recommendation: Not Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody, I had read some other books by Amis

Words for which I sought help:

eructation -- a belch

tumescence -- the quality of being swollen, or a swollen part of the body, especially caused by sexual excitement

Review:

This book is well written.  The material, however, is abhorrent.  I found it unpleasant to read each piece and, while I enjoyed both the turns of phrase and the literary references, I kept thinking that at some moment there would be some kind of rejoinder which would somehow make reading the previous sections palatable.  That did not happen.