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Loading... The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to Americapor Martin Amis
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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. The book isn't terrible, but Amis just isn't as smart as he thinks he is. This is more or less a young writer feeling the effects of success, and it's pretty much spoiled him already. The running assumption is that you care what he thinks because he thinks it. I don't and Amis seem unwilling or unable to do much to persuade. (  ) ehines | Sep 9, 2009 |  One could argue that I came to this book twenty years too late. Afterall, Amis's essays concern America in the early to mid 1980s, and presumably a lot has changed. But as the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and that is particularly true, it seems, of America. Amis witnesses the birth, one might say, of the Evangelist Right in America; it is with us still, and just as strong. Amis writes about the television personality being moulded and twisted by handlers and outside interests to become President Reagan; here we are, fortunately spared in 2008 of a McCain presidency. Amis writes about the cultural legends of the time: Capote, Vidal, Mailer; and of their excesses. Are there not now legends written about Amis himself in the same vein? Throughout this motley collection of learned articles, Amis's humour is constant: witty, acerbic, biting, and always spot-on. Even though the topics are old, the writing has not aged and remains as scintillating today as on its original publication. (  ) soylentgreen23 | Nov 26, 2008 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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