Dead Babies - Martin Amis

...to convince me that I'm wrong, then I shall retract all. I won't be holding my breath! By the way, the title is a dismissive term used by one of the characters. In the spirit of the book I'd have to say it is indeed Dead Babies. ...

ruth_cole 08.12.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Dead Babies - Martin Amis

Amis focuses on the erosion and final demise of a group of sex and drug indulgent young persons. He tells a sordid tale which aims to satirise the youth culture as it morphs from the freedom and peace-loving hippies of the 1960s, and plunges into the anarchy-driven punk 1970s. The above review does not appear to understand this, seeing only the surface vulgarity and not realising the irony beneath; in that in creating something so delightfully repulsive ...
...realise the extent of their errors. As a result the effect Amis wanted to achieve is lost through time to us, it being so specifically contemporary that it is difficult for our youth to relate to it. Personally I found the over the top occasional homorous sadism and drug bingeing hilarious, but it is an acquired taste. To get bored in this novel is like getting bored while walking through hell. ...

t__cox 22.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dead Babies - Martin Amis