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| Original Title: | Dead Babies |
| ISBN: | 067973449X (ISBN13: 9780679734499) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Martin Amis
Paperback | Pages: 206 pages Rating: 3.32 | 6778 Users | 205 Reviews
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If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P.G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies" — dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.
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| Title | : | Dead Babies |
| Author | : | Martin Amis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 206 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 1991 by Vintage (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.32 From 6778 Users | 205 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Dead Babies
Pretty awful. This is the third Amis novel I've read in ten years. The man clearly hates people. Remember Keith Talent - a really contemptuous proto-'Chavs' portrait of working class people? Well, here's Keith Whitehead, a contemptuous portrait of... short, fat people. Characters don't have to be nice, I know - but here they're hateful and flat and they just don't exist anywhere. Reading about them is corrosive. The only thing I'm grateful for is the one-liner about people, which I've sinceAccording to Martin Amis, 25 is the age at which I set aside childish things and become a wholly wretched person. I will move into a posh house in the country with my fratish friends and our pretty but willingly vapid chicks. Like all good-looking young people, we will leech off our nebbish but rich housemate, using his seemingly endless funds to maintain a continually bacchanal existence. When we are not rolling the next joint, snorting one more line, popping open one more bottle of champagne,
The subtitle for this one is "Dark Secrets". Doesn't that sound positively scandalous? Martin Amis is kind of a strange case: on the one hand he's incredibly witty, observant and has a style that could cut steel with its keen edge, but on the other reading his books sometimes feels like a guilty pleasure because he just loves to burrow deep into the minds of his characters and bring out the filth and degradation inside. Not only that, but he seems to revel in it: to delight in the fetishistic
Good God it's hard to rate this book.I read it when I was about 17/18, and I devoured it in about 24 hours. I loved that some of the narrative was almost stylised around the characters, as if the characters influenced the writing style. At the time I thought it was absolutely brilliant - I hadn't experienced or read many books that dealt with drugs or sex in such a frank, open way. I think my adventure into books that dealt with those topics was almost my way of experiencing drugs and sex. I
I find it very hard to review this book in any other way than to look at its moral credentials. If the school bully was to write a book it might be something like this. Starting with the title, this book "Dead Babies" asks us to consider the seamier side of life, the one well off the straight and narrow. We are slowly and meanderingly introduced to a group of people mainly living for no real purpose other than to experiment with recreational drugs and loveless sex."Dead babies" refers both to
This story is another sad example of the drug culture, going no where, seventies. It supposedly is a parody of Agatha Christie novel and there is the England pastoral, large mansion house setting and a crew of characters and a bit of mystery with notes from Johnny. This story takes place over a weekend. We have several characters. The British characters are Quentin and Celia (husband and wife and owners of the house), Andy Adorno handsome and aggressive. Giles, anxious and phobic, Keith
Well. Thank God that's over.
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