Mart bores away about Sally & Kingsley

[thirstymuse1]

@grapejelly, if you loathe Martin Amis so much, why do you post all this stuff? I just BET you're a failed novelist.

[Sushilover4ever]

folkiemacc: its great to see that mart is your hero, im mentioned in that book, look out for fernanda. i read the last few lines and i cried

[FolkieMacc]

I'm reading Experience and he has become my hero. I also saw Philip Larkin at Hull in 1982-'85 and he completely ignored me! Can I be an intellectual now?

[scotty123123]

Martin Amis is a genius

[tirnanog20]

Mart's sense of loss at death of Kingsley and Sally is real and beautifully evoked in his writing. Problem is, his insensitive dramatising of his cousin's murder and his using of her death in his memoir, offended her family (as he says of the guy who wrote about his father's death-bed scene "What was he doing in there?") Also his too personal descriptions of his own father's death, make us suspect his motives. Is nothing sacred to this guy? He does not forgive others for this ambulance-chasing.

[fagbashersanonymous]

he's not a pseudo-intellectual, he's an intellectual. by what other term could he be described? he earns his bread and butter by his intellect. it's his job. what in the world could it mean to call martin amis a pseudo-intellectual?

[pcoldham]

you went out and grabbed and achieved and worked your b...-self to death... he was GOING to say 'worked your butt off', wasn't he?!

never very impressed by charlie rose, gotta admit

[moleador]

This is the problem, guys like this. Can you imagine him as a kid, making his own soap-box cart? I can't. These pseudo intellectuals don't have the slightest clue about how things work yet we're told to hang on their every word. Egotistical fop. Why don't you talk about steel and aluminium before you pin blame fop? Don't be in awe of this guy, he's as much an illusion as 911.

[HuckabeeNJesusBFF]

i'ro'ny (noun)- see above

[JonMGilbertson]

Yes, this IS the problem. Not religious fools, not ideological zealots, not crazed delusional sociopaths. Why not blame a Danish cartoonist while you're at it?

[campbellonia]

Who is that interviewer? He's hilarious! I'm not slagging him - but talk about earnest! I like the guy, he just makes me laugh.

[curiosofsigns1234]

I laughed so hard at the title to this. Why oh why does Martin Amis get funnier and funnier the more he turns into a big foreheaded caricature of himself?

[Fancyclown]

Fenton

[KittusTheMighty]

Thankyou for putting this up. Sneery old goat he may be, but when I was lucky enough to meet him (for about two seconds) a couple of months ago, I was so awed I nearly shat meself.

[thepethamstar]

total ledge... whats he doin hanging out with Christoper Hitchens?

[Modernjazz1]

they've been friends ever since they were at Oxford together in the late 60s. their circle also included the poet james fenmore.

[JonMGilbertson]

He's busily writing better English than you are.

[saulhughes]

Thanks a million for posting these!