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    <body><![CDATA[It continues to amaze me how those who claim to be fans of Martin Amis haven't heard of or read Time's Arrow. This book is a masterpiece in experimental fiction. He literally, methodically,  writes the story backwards as his character experiences time going backwards. I don't know of any other autho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13009593">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't say enough about this novel, though a quick glance at my friends' reviews reveals that they liked it but were not quite as blown away by it. I loved how Amis took a conceit (running the world backwards and witnessing it from a naive viewpoint that must make sense of backwards-living) and use...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1309441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of this book is well-recorded in earlier reviews: We start with the death of a doctor named Tod Friendly, and then move backwards through his life (much life hitting the Rewind button on a VCR while the tape was still playing). In reverse, the doctors take healthy patients and leave them...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18168609">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a truly unique story. It starts at death and runs backwards through birth, but even that has a twist. The narrator of the story is a separate voice inside the main character, who is unaware of this omnipresent observer. The voice is impotent and incapable of controlling the body or thoughts of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2948507">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an absolutely odd book. I am glad I read it, but not sure I &quot;liked&quot; it. I found the character of Tod Friendly never engaging, often repulsive, but well written. A case where I can appreciate what the author was doing, but not be thrilled by the book.<br/><br/>The idea of telling the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50973227">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is perhaps Martin Amis greatest misfortune that in decade plus since he wrote Time's Arrow telling tales backwards has become so in vogue. Following the film Memento, movies and novels both have grasped on to the device, sometimes using it well where it fits, more often just relying on it to make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71171048">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  Hardest.Book.Ever to read.  Chronicles a life, but in reverse. Do not think &quot;Benjamin Buttons&quot; - far, far from it. Everything is moving backwards, as seen by a secondary &quot;person&quot; who is pretty much just along for the ride, trapped in the body and without control of actions ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65942724">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, this book is perversely clever, even brilliant in a quirky sort of way.  Time, in &quot;Time's Arrow,&quot; moves backwards.  It begins with the narrator's death, and the action runs in reverse until he enters his mother's womb at the end and disappears.  Other novels are equally perversely cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63230766">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I confess that I read this book quite a while ago (probably 10+ years ago), so the details are a little hazy. But the idea of the book stayed with me after all this time--so it must have made an impression on me (and books that make an impression or worth reading!). I remembered that I liked the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53969426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh.  There's a great passage in Vonnegut's &quot;Slaughterhouse 5,&quot; where Billy Pilgrim is watching a film about WWII and sees it all backward.  Not only is it an inventive passage, it's also insightful, forcing the reader to think about war, destruction, and progress in a different light.  Ami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41169037">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly harrowing story – told in reverse. Love affairs start with a slap in the face; yellow cabs pay their passengers up front; and terrified women are abandoned in parks to be cured by rape. The impact of atrocities is intensified by forcing the reader to digest every event twice. (Ranks in all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5787168">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At first this book was a little confusing, but as i read further into the chapters, i became in love with this book. Both of the plot and the format of this novel is unique. I have never read backwards and i have never read books backward. I don't literary mean reading it backwards, however the stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70548370">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read by Martin Amis, and I will certainly be reading more after this one.  I can't tell too much about this book without ruining the ending, but I highly recommend it.  The novel is told in reverse -- it starts with the main character's death and each chapter moves backwa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51578147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I've heard many readers acknowledge Amis for what he is: the closest thing (maybe too close? an objection I remember someone raising in an undergraduate classroom back at good old U of H [good old Barry Menikoff's expressive frame draped in a tattered Robert Louis Stevenson tee:] where...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54114417">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Watch out for spoilers if you are deciding whether to read this book or not. The back cover practically gives away the ending, and a few online resources (such as Amazon) are even worse, spelling things out in detail. <br/><br/>In any case, this is the life story of a man named Tod Friendly, as se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65197309">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amis here has taken an unusual, novel, and moderately absurd conceit to approach the often approached/unapproachable subject of thoughtless Nazi brutality during the holocaust. While his dedication to the viewpoint of the narrator, a bodyless, knowledgeable ghost living in the mind of a Nazi doctor ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21332287">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In this story told backwards, the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly is told from end to beginning. The doctor dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home.<br/><br/>Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor&#8217;s consciousness begins living the doctor&#8217;s life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.]]>
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