false <![CDATA[Money: A Suicide Note]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178134608m/762284.jpg 18825 10 The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate. 85999 1985 Money total:1333|5:339|4:487|3:345|2:110|1:52| 1333 4950 2124 147 3 2 false false Thu Jan 03 14:36:22 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 14:50:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jul 11 13:16:52 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 07 14:51:12 -0700 2009 Saturn 3 thinly disguised as a novel.

What's a Saturn 3? It, along with Mars Attacks, is (are?) Amis' gift(s) to the silver screen.

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It was still somewhat enjoyable, but I just felt so tens...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 06:14:29 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 06:14:48 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Tue Feb 10 06:04:13 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:13:00 -0800 2009 "There are many books that will change your life. There are very few that will fuck it up completely."
We were young and impressionable and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 21 07:32:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 07:32:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 12 06:44:27 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 23 08:32:02 -0800 2009 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis and my book club discussion of it (which started about two minutes after I finished reading), the following happened, roughly in this order:

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That was one of the oddest books I've ever read.
Topic- well, Money. No, really, it's mostly about money. And pornography. And sex. And street fights. And movies. And an author named Martin Amis. And drinking, loads of drinking.

It is also one of the best written ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 14:38:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:31:06 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 14:38:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 13 11:00:12 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 05:19:28 -0800 2008 like it, so I don't want to give it three stars, but it interested me more than it simply being okay. I'm really not a fan of post-modernism in general -- I dislike being constantly pulled out of the story and reminded that it is a sto...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 25 18:15:08 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 14:55:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 12:45:19 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:59:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Mar 30 10:34:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 18:55:34 -0700 2009 2 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 17 07:15:26 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 08:12:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 01:23:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 01:24:46 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 14:58:33 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:02:18 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:56:11 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:59:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 11:31:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 19:31:09 -0800 2008
The book would have been a knockout if it were much, much slighter. But after 250 ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=762284