Well.  This… this is unexpected.  Two 5+ books back to back?  Does the reading of this book – a book that felt more than a little bit like Gravity’s Rainbow in terms of the sheer “before/after” of the reading experience – alter the way I felt about the last one?  I think it does.  I’m having trouble (in the back-to-back-ing) reconciling the two novels as being anything remotely the same. Shteyngart’s book was a masterwork because it caught me off-guard. […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 5+, Fiction, Literature, Martin Amis, Money: a suicide note