- Taschenbuch: 493 Seiten
- Verlag: Flamingo; Auflage: N.-A. (10. Juni 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0006548830
- ISBN-13: 978-0006548836
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,5 x 13,1 x 3,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (23 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 475.394 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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What a narrator says of this novel's main character could also be said of Martin Amis, "He didn't want to please the readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged." Amis leaves important facts unsaid; fractures plot, setting, and narrators; fragments his thoughts and phrases; and provides the overall experience of multimedia with its juxtaposition, variance, and shifts in emphasis. The most startling quality of the book is how accurately Amis depicts our world: its rapidly changing urban landscape, interior mind-set, and bombardment of exterior stimuli. This is attention deficit disorder. This is push and pull. This is confront, ignore, distract. And Richard, his middle-aged book-reviewer protagonist, is largely sexist, completely alcoholic, and obsessively jealous of his "friend" Gwyn Barry's literary success. Though we may expect back stabbing, adultery, revenge, even physical abuse to exist in big business, politics, celebrity, or crime-ring scenarios, one rarely expects such antics and treachery in the arts. In some ways, Amis reveals a kind of secret. On the other hand, he displays with overwhelming hyperbole a man's middle-aged dilemma: his lust, regret, and necessary testosterone surges. To compete, to win, to destroy become key goals--information serving the cause of whoever wields it. This book is at once amazing, puzzling, and sickening, but its ideas get under your skin, which is no doubt the author's main intention. JoJo March
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Richard Tull, a fortyish book reviewer and failed novelist, is driven to distraction by the effortless and unmerited success of fellow Oxonian Gwyn Barry. While Barry's simpleminded novels become overnight best sellers, Tull's dense experimental manuscripts send a succession of literary agents to the hospital with migraine. Tull finally decides it's payback time, and this novel chronicles his slapstick attempts to annihilate his friend. Amis pads the narrative with irrelevant and sometimes erroneous scientific data, presumably to justify the book's title. (In one astronomical digression, he gives the speed of light as 186,000 miles per hour.) In general, however, this is a wonderfully cantankerous send-up of the British literary scene, similar to David Lodge's satire on academia, Small World (1984). Although the book has been greeted as a roman a clef in Great Britain, no special knowledge is required to enjoy its comedy. Recommended for most fiction collections.
-?Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
-?Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Martin Amis' latest novel was released in the context of lengthy media hassles involving A.S. Byatt, expensive dental work, and agent wars akin to those in the Larry Sanders Show. As such, it was often reviewed nastily. And it must be said that there is plenty to complain about- dead-end subplots, misogyny, self-plagarization. But does this mean the book should not be read? Not on your life.
It contains some of the funniest prose you will ever read, and its central satrical point is gratifyingly well realized.
The two main characters represent two dismaying poles of modern literature. The protagonist, Richard Tull, is a writer of novels that are ambitious, pretentious, and undreadble; his antagonist, and putative best friend, is Gwyn Barry, who writes unpretentious, "Celestine Prophecy"-type hackwork that is unreadable by any intelligent standard but is inexplicably loved by millions. Tull's ever- intensfying jealously is the core of the novel, and gives Amis a starting point to lauch some blisteringly funny satric missiles. The section dealing with Tull's book toor, in particular, is utterly masterful.
What goes on besides this is not partcularly interesting, however. A pornography-obsessed thug wanders in from London Fields to bring the novel to a screeching halt, presumably to make by now banal points about the decay-of-modern-society that Amis has made much more effectively elsewhere. And the novel's female characters are, to put it charitably, less than fully realized.
Nonetheless, the novel's overall strength makes it a rewarding experience, replete with much scaborous humor and some geniune insight as well
It contains some of the funniest prose you will ever read, and its central satrical point is gratifyingly well realized.
The two main characters represent two dismaying poles of modern literature. The protagonist, Richard Tull, is a writer of novels that are ambitious, pretentious, and undreadble; his antagonist, and putative best friend, is Gwyn Barry, who writes unpretentious, "Celestine Prophecy"-type hackwork that is unreadable by any intelligent standard but is inexplicably loved by millions. Tull's ever- intensfying jealously is the core of the novel, and gives Amis a starting point to lauch some blisteringly funny satric missiles. The section dealing with Tull's book toor, in particular, is utterly masterful.
What goes on besides this is not partcularly interesting, however. A pornography-obsessed thug wanders in from London Fields to bring the novel to a screeching halt, presumably to make by now banal points about the decay-of-modern-society that Amis has made much more effectively elsewhere. And the novel's female characters are, to put it charitably, less than fully realized.
Nonetheless, the novel's overall strength makes it a rewarding experience, replete with much scaborous humor and some geniune insight as well
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An episode of Road Runner for intellectuals, with the protagonist, a failed writer, as Wile E. Coyote, and his "friend", a much more successful writer, as Road Runner. If you still like the cartoon, you'll like this, but otherwise, probably not.
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"For humans, the history of cosmology is the history of increasing humiliation." Amis' universe constantly humiliates me, for he is a writer of immense gifts. Unfortunately, sometimes I can't follow him along those barely-trodden paths because the technique stomps all over his humour. That doesn't happen here.
He packs in big ideas and a flurry of big words (my favourite: uxorious) around a story of a writer's jealousy for his best friends success. The eternal debate over the merits of art and commerce are perfectly symbolized in the antagonistic friendship between Richard Tull (whose hyper-complex novels induce migraine headaches in all who dare read its pages) and Gwyn Barry (who shares the same rung in the literary canon with 'Dave' Barry). Don't worry friends, there's no easy answer here. You get to hate both men! And it's funny, too!
Also, check out the cool 'Simpsons' reference.
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The Information is a Hoot!
This book reminds me of something my mother use to tell me: "You've got a bad attitude, and nothing good can come from that! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2000 von Matt B.
This book is hoot!
This book reminds me of something my mother use to tell me: "You've got a bad attitude, and nothing good can come from that! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juni 2000 von Matt B.
A horror in deft kicks
The information will stamp you to death. And there's tons of astronomy in there, as well. Bloody, y'know.
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Michael Major
good for MIT kids
MIT kids graduate with a profound sense that the world is and should be a meritocracy. There is always then that horrible moment when they are forced to confront the fact that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. April 2000 von Philip Greenspun
Brilliant
The best example of literary envy I can remember eading. Excellent
Veröffentlicht am 25. Februar 2000 von Kristin Lyons
In Retrospect
In terms of maturity, "The Information" is a more mature work than either "Money" or "London Fields. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Februar 2000 von Richard Cunningham
Brilliant author, disappointing book
I would love to meet Martin Amis. I would love to understand his creative process. I would love to know if he takes copies of the SAT and purposely tries to put those obscure words... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Januar 2000 von Juliet Gole
Genius consumed by the same cultural rot he describes
Martin Amis has talent to burn, but why spend it in a bonfire like this? The Rachel Papers was funny, shrewd, brilliant, and London Fields deserved to win the Booker, but Amis... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Brilliant, slick, and terribly clever. Ultimately, pointless
So there was this literary reviewer, right, who has failed to have his genius recognised, and in between writing literary reviews he is writing a book about a literary reviewer who... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Martins line
Martin Amis has found the ideal forum to compliment his writing in Tina Browns latest attempt to prove that she has all the literary acumen of a Beverly Hills hair dresser, Talk... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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