I finished "The Information." He is a master of the language and has a dark, dark sense of humor and irony. Like most excellent writers, it takes some reading to get what the style is, but once you are on his wavelength, it will have you laughing and groaning. The ending felt like a blow to the stomach.
One nice quote: Analogizing thoughts during insomnia: " On the beach the waves [grow more persistant and more persuasive] ceaselessly, gathering mass and body, climbing until they break and are then resummoned into the generality with a sound like breath sucked in between the teeth."
It is the only Amis book available in this town, so I've moved on to Ian McEwan.
Civilization calls. I will soon be one train ride away from a slightly better library.
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