Review: Martin Amis, London Fields
August 6th, 2010 at 8:02 pm ETSo I’m done with Martin Amis’s London Fields.
I think everything I said before still holds. In fact, I found myself tumbling through it faster and faster as I got deeper and deeper into it, taking more for granted about the fictional universe and thus able (eager) to eat my way through it and bigger and bigger bites.
This is what happens when you get far enough into a book with a plot that is rolling forward of its own momentum toward a foreshadowed end state, even (especially) if that foreshadowing is ominous and grave: you can’t wait to get there and see how it turns out.
I wasn’t quite satisfied by the ending, but I enjoyed the experience so much — and felt the characterizations of the four major personalities in the book were so richly fleshed out — that Amis can be forgiven that.
Buy, read, enjoy.
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