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39 ratings, 3.36 average rating, 4 reviews
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published
November 30th 1970
by Penguin Books Ltd
binding
Paperback, 176 pages
isbn
0140024174
(isbn13: 9780140024173)
description
Roger Micheldene, an English publisher, is on the loose in the U.S. He spends an October week shuttling between New York and Budweiser College in Pen...more
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Read in July, 2007
Hilarious and fascinating: a youngish, and still-reputedly-socialist Kingsley Amis predicts his future as an obese bigoted alcoholic womanizer with astonishing accuracy. Kingsley rarely wastes his words, and his ability to put across comic situations is peerless (well, except for his son Martin). Here we get a darker, nastier version of his usual sexual shenanigans, with some attempted mockery of America thrown in for good measure (the novel is set in a fictional southern college called... Budwe...more
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Read in August, 2007
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Patient and obese Englishmen
This book was a disappointment.
Years ago, I read The King's English and found it quite entertaining. Since that time, I often thought of Kingsley Amis and how I should read one of his novels. I even read House of Meetings (a tremendously good novel) by Martin Amis, Kingsley's son.
Now I have gone and read a Kingsley Amis novel, and I can report that it left a lot to be desired. It is not particularly funny; there aren't ten sentences that bring a smile to one's face.
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Years ago, I read The King's English and found it quite entertaining. Since that time, I often thought of Kingsley Amis and how I should read one of his novels. I even read House of Meetings (a tremendously good novel) by Martin Amis, Kingsley's son.
Now I have gone and read a Kingsley Amis novel, and I can report that it left a lot to be desired. It is not particularly funny; there aren't ten sentences that bring a smile to one's face.
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Read in September, 2008
Well - I've been reading this one for a while now. Still working on finishing it. I'm not sure I'll get there. Here it is - months later - still sitting on my dresser. Maybe later. Finally finished this. Can't figure out why I bothered. I really wanted to read a Kingsley Amis - maybe this wasn't the one. The language was interesting. I just didn't like the characters. Of course, I don't think that was the point - the main character was distinctly unlikeable - but I guess I just don't ha...more
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Read in July, 2008
This book offers a quite remarkably negative self-portrait. Presumably Amis was disgusted with himself for leaving his first wife in such a callous manner. But few people would have gone this far.
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