tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post6742591877916958674..comments2023-10-21T11:46:32.529+01:00Comments on Madame Arcati: Martin Amis and The Guardian: Asbo savaged not quite by all in the USMadame Arcatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-63540875546889863222012-08-30T08:57:37.635+01:002012-08-30T08:57:37.635+01:00I thought u'd closed downI thought u'd closed downAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-42854439486662219352012-08-30T08:57:18.048+01:002012-08-30T08:57:18.048+01:00Do you have a naked picture of Martin Amis?Do you have a naked picture of Martin Amis?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-50245933438649986972012-08-30T08:56:50.207+01:002012-08-30T08:56:50.207+01:00A good spot Madame. Asbo is an excellent novel, ev...A good spot Madame. Asbo is an excellent novel, even if Peter Kemp of the Sunday Times thinks it's crap. Reviewers are like fashion editors, ever in search of the next new thing in order to look good themselves. Familiarity always breeds contempt. Am is may have to skip a generation before he's appreciated again. If he can live that long.A cunting criticnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-48473576314737657162012-08-29T20:34:20.456+01:002012-08-29T20:34:20.456+01:00Well, I'm an avid reader of Amis, and consider...Well, I'm an avid reader of Amis, and consider <i>Asbo</i> his best. But then, I'm a reader, not a critic. I take his seriousness as a novelist as a given. What's left but to enjoy the read?<br /><br />The critics are mostly jealous of Amis, not least because he's a brilliant critic himself; and perhaps most because he's so listenable on camera too. His "fallen features" as you elegantly put it, make him very watchable as well.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com