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    <body><![CDATA[The book isn't terrible, but Amis just isn't as smart as he thinks he is. This is more or less a young writer feeling the effects of success, and it's pretty much spoiled him already. The running assumption is that you care what he thinks because he thinks it. I don't and Amis seem unwilling or unab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72588078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dated [there's a chapter called &quot;making sense of Aids&quot;] musings and interviews on/with America by Martin Amis, mostly republished from the Observer Magazine and Vanity Fair. It includes savagings of Hugh Hefner, William Burroughs, and Norman Mailer, who really comes off as a prize fucker. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28158428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis (1991)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Purchased at Barking Dog Books and Art in Marietta, Ohio, on August 11th, 2006.  With tax, it came to $5.35 - original retail price in 1987 was $16.95.  This is a Washington County Public Library copy.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Suggested readings: &quot;The Killings in Atlanta&quot;, &quot;In Hefner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9951132">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 27 16:11:32 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent collection of essays, reviews and articles concerning American politicians, icons, writers and filmmakers.  As always, Amis dazzles with stylistic tricks, sharp wit and profound insights.<br/><br/>The best bit: my used copy, signed by Amis, cost three bucks!<br/><br/>&quot;Why not a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16220304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martin Amis....is not a Baudriallardian when it comes to the States. Awe, but no gee-shucks-wonder, and that critical eye comes in handy when teasing insights out of the flimsiest of essay subjects, or areas where his interest is seemingly predicated by editorial dictates as opposes authorial swagge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13138852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No one is quite as cutting and astute as Amis when it comes to pre-1990s American culture. His profile of Reagan is spot-on, and his Truman Capote essay uncomfortable yet engaging.]]></body>
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