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Title: Disappointing
Review: An enormous disappointment.I have usually greatly enjoyed Martin Amis's novels. Sadly, not this one.The central premise is a neat one but there is more truth & beauty in the single line from Vonnegut describing the bombers flying backwards over Dresden than there is in the whole of this book.Somewhere in the middle of this book Amis loses interest in the central premise. Maybe he is bored by it, maybe he lacks the intellectual rigour to see it through or may be he knows that the first 100 pages simply do not measure up and only the huge advance keeps him going.
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