false <![CDATA[Success]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167095466m/18831.jpg 18831 10 In <b>Success</b> Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to create a modern-day Jacobean revenge comedy that soars with malicious poetry. 1037037 1989 Success total:372|5:58|4:143|3:135|2:26|1:10| 372 1329 465 28 3 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 16:41:49 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 20:58:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:04:29 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 15:33:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 21:40:13 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 22:51:32 -0800 2009
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Then I lost it in the house and just found it again before reading it. I think...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 21:24:49 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:55:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 09 18:49:19 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:51:07 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Nov 20 04:09:38 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 04:12:29 -0800 2008 2 Extremely clever and elegant novel about the subjective nature of success and failure. For once, Amis wraps up the story properly and has a satisfying ending.

The sex scene near the end (which, it turns out, was all in the main character's imagination) must rank as both one of the ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 29 12:50:04 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 25 08:45:11 -0800 2009 Success's structure, its wit and, dare I say, its glamour are so concise, so outlandish, so accurate and otherworldly that I believe it must have been fashioned by an alien species; the same spacefolk responsible for the pyramids of Egypt, the monkey face on Mars and the inexplicable popularity of G...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 14:53:30 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 14:53:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 20 19:53:20 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 19:58:36 -0700 2007 Success would get five stars, for sure...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Wed Oct 17 11:08:40 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 04 02:37:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 06 18:56:13 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 19:00:36 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 07:47:17 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 02:03:40 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Wed Aug 08 20:47:03 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 20:47:03 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 11 13:21:55 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 03 16:57:05 -0700 2008 Success. I mean Amis' novel has even got that brother-sister Ada thing going on. ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 12 08:33:15 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 08:34:18 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Fri Sep 07 08:53:26 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 08:53:58 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 24 13:26:21 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 13:26:50 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Wed Mar 19 13:58:39 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 13:58:53 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=18831