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  <title><![CDATA[London Fields]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;b&gt;London Fields&lt;/b&gt; is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a &quot;black hole&quot; of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;A comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter...by turns lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic.&quot;--Michiko Kakutani, &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin Amis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 10 18:58:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 14:44:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fun fucking book. I blew off everything today (and, well, most of the week) just to read this book, because it was that fucking fun. God, I loved this book. I just read it nonstop, and when the recurring irritation that is my life did tear me away, I kept thinking about what I'd read, and jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66903146">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 23:27:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 04 14:17:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Congratulations, little 470-page tome.  You outbid <em>Ada</em> in the little push-pull contest I had going on all evening.  It was either you or her.  You won.  I hope that you don't disappoint me.  You won't disappoint me.    <br/><br/>Your author is, according to the jacket copy, &quot;a force unto hims...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4461755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1623551">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 03 06:29:10 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 03 06:35:57 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[People often say Martin Amis in the brilliant guy at the party you avoid, but Amis actually can roll a great joint and cut a fine rail. Also he knows secrets about the host that you'd have never suspected. His breath is terrible, though, and he keeps trying to kiss you. ]]></body>
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    <review id="38206388">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 04:06:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 16 09:55:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book just has it all. <br/><br/>Um. That's not very specific. I suppose I'd better say what &quot;it&quot; is. Well... off the top of my head: an engaging femme fatale, an equally engaging anti-hero - Keith Talent is an asshole's asshole - a dangerous baby, psychic powers, explicit descriptio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38206388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33839195">
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Misanthropes ]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 25 14:27:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 25 14:57:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This incoherent tale oozes malignant intent and world weary cynicism. None of the main characters have any positive traits whatsoever. They are variously weak, selfish, greedy, naive, manipulative and violent. The story is punctuated by the self-conscious musings of a narrator who is both seperate f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33839195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="641159">
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    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 08 22:03:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 08 22:13:02 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book and I have quite a history.  I'm a big fan of ex-Ministry member Chris Connelly's solo work and he mentions this book in two of his songs (&quot;London Fields&quot; and &quot;Nicola 6&quot;) which perked my interest in Amis.  I started reading this in June of 2006 and gave up as I had no i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/641159">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/641159]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1444969">
    <user id="97207">
    <name><![CDATA[Eric]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[South Pasadena, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who loves the craft]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 25 13:34:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 25 14:14:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and it is one of my top ten favorites of all time.  The novel is sheer virtuousity, and what might suffer under the weight of showiness and pretense really works here because at the end of it all, it is so well written.  And the book turns on you, an unexpected ending that made me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1444969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24253435">
    <user id="1227769">
    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 15 09:50:47 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 11 12:27:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 15 09:50:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amis almost defines what is good about post-modernism in literature for me. Here he examines London in the late 20th century, touching upon themes like class, sex, money and Anglo-American cultural differences. Memorable to me are the descriptions of Marmaduke (the baby from hell) and Keith Talent (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24253435">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="72304328">
    <user id="1462980">
    <name><![CDATA[Emma]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Australia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 23 20:58:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 23 21:05:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest I read this such a long time ago that I have really only retained impressions. One of the misanthropy (or 'nastiness') that it's steeped in. Another memory is a line (I believe it's about a rape?) that says &quot;his two tongues entered her two mouths&quot; or something like that; a lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72304328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61038843">
    <user id="239699">
    <name><![CDATA[Pierce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Dublin, Ireland]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 25 03:40:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's possible that in the past I may have represented myself as someone who has read <em>London Fields</em>. That's because I absolutely thought I did! I was confusing it with <em>Money</em>, or the <em>Rachel Papers</em>, or something. All I know is that every time I saw it on a bookshelf I checked it off and moved on.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61038843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45118568">
    <user id="1854336">
    <name><![CDATA[Rob]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 02 00:55:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 00:55:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like some of Amis's book and he knows how to write a dazzling sentence, but this is a book full of mean spirited characters and a snobbishness towards the working class that predates the &quot;chav&quot; phenomenon by almost twenty years. Keith Talent, lauded in some quarters as a brilliantly draw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45118568">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45118568]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="1282142">
    <user id="88347">
    <name><![CDATA[Alex]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu May 17 17:27:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 18 17:25:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't tell you how many times my stomach writhed inside me while reading this book.  Is it possible for a fictional character like Nikki Six to trap a real human reader thus, to leave him hollow and dry like a peanut shell?<br/><br/>This is _not_ a book to be taken lightly.]]></body>
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    <review id="57030677">
    <user id="2324330">
    <name><![CDATA[William]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Woodbridge, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 15:57:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ooooooooook, sooo.... it's a very hard book to read.  And it's certainly something unique.  The writing style is... lofty?  It's hard to read definitely.  I was really struggling through it.  So often I had no idea what was going on, and I'm kind of stuck on that right now.  The ending kind of... th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57030677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72989593">
    <user id="231689">
    <name><![CDATA[Camilla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[JRC and the fact that I ran out of books on tour]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 03 07:31:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a weird one for sure. A page-turner, definitely, and he has a way with words that makes the book worth reading despite the fact that you hate all the characters (that almost always ruins a book for me, though I think I might be the only person I know like that). Jordan described his style as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72989593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7844206">
    <user id="398267">
    <name><![CDATA[Nacho]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bilbao, Spain]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 17 11:53:38 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 17 11:54:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[El mejor libro de Martin Amis. Imprescindible, cínico y muy divertido.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7844206]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="60586065">
    <user id="2442580">
    <name><![CDATA[Frank]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bronx, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 21 20:20:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 21 20:34:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amis has a talent for making reprehensible characters somehow endearing and turning those who are simple and kind somehow crass. (But then he's a bit of a caracter himself, from a family of characters, or so I've read.) The only person in this book with any redeeming qualities is baby Kim, and one f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60586065">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60586065]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="65791819">
    <user id="964960">
    <name><![CDATA[George]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot of London Fields largely revolves around the intersection of four characters: an author who comes to London as part of an apartment swap; a darts-playing, beer-swilling, womanizing scam artist and petty criminal; an oblivious uppercrust goody-two-shoes; and a conniving, oversexed femme fata...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65791819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A detective story, the planning of a murder, rumination on the game of darts, meditation on love and jealousy and the resulting rage, and an analysis of uniquely British characters and culture.  This was the first Martin Amis book I read, and it stayed with me a long time.  As usual in his books, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18591634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[London Fields – Martin Amis.  This is the first Martin Amis I have read.  I have heard that a lot of people hate him.  Count me in.  The story is about a woman (Nicola) who believes she always knows what will happen ahead of time and she knows she is going to be murdered.  Instead of fighting it s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2977278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was reading this on the subway once and someone asked me &quot;are you a lawyer?&quot;  I was like, &quot;umm a law student... why?&quot;  He apparently knew a lawyer who was reading this book too.  This never happens to me when I'm reading law textbooks, somehow.<br/><br/>This alleged &quot;law...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40980368">more...</a>]]></body>
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