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22055189 No.22055189 [Reply] [Original]

Fuck, didn't know he had throat cancer. His mate Hitch went the same way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65660768

>> No.22055207

>>22055189
Damn, I was just thinking of ordering his books the other day when an anon mentioned him. Favorite? And best place to start?

>> No.22055209

>>22055189
how can people die?

>> No.22055210

Literally who?

>> No.22055219

>>22055189
RIP but they should have stopped smoking if their throats couldnt handle the banter. My grampa went the same way but he was in his 90s and wasnt a poofter english scholar.

>> No.22055226

>>22055207
His autobiography "Experience" is excellent. I always preferred his non-fiction essay collections-

The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America

Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions

The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971–2000

On the fiction side "Money" and "Information" are the 2 biggies but I have a soft spot for "Night Trai "

>> No.22055237

>>22055226
He sounds like an insufferable jackass. Good thing he’s dead

>> No.22055241

Never read him, but did enjoy his father’s book “Lucky Jim”

>> No.22055255

I knew something was amis

>> No.22055273

>>22055210
Kingsleys son
>F.

>> No.22055292

Damn.
He was looking rough for a while, but I didn't expect this.
Was just thinking of him the other day too, how it's been a while since his last novel, and how I didn't care for that second memoir, but thought the zone of interest wasn't half bad, and how he's not done any more of those slightly awkward interviews he gives out now and then.
I guess now we know.


For book i pretty much agree with >>22055226
It was thought of as a novelist but he was a marvelous, and exacting critic of the kind we just don't get anymore. A snob with the skills and knowledge to back it up. I thought it was a terrible shame how the Brits treated him.

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22055293

just realised, someone actually filmed Dead Babies. This has gotta be so shit, its great.

>> No.22055323

>>22055293
The Zone of Interest is getting a film aswell. Seems to have some buzz around it.

> insert joke about Amis also having a buzz around him.

>> No.22055335

>>22055189
They probably got HPV through gay sex and throat cancer from sucking eachother's cocks.

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>>22055189
Another Anglo fraud bites the dust.

>> No.22055338

>>22055323
johnathan glazer
one of those directors i find entirely cold and almost entirely uninteresting who nevertheless has a strong critical and cult following

>> No.22055350

>>22055338
Birth was alright.UTS was 'cold and almost entirely uninteresting '

>> No.22055351

>>22055323
I've never read that desu - Times Arrow was enough with The Nazis already, thanks. Like Dylan when he caught Christianity, maybe not Amis best subject. Times Arrow really is fucking dreadful tho, one-gimmick trash. Its almost comical/criminal thats the only book he ever had shortlisted for the Booker. Money is (inarguably) the quintessential Martin Amis. Its also a great book.

>> No.22055374

>>22055351
A few years ago I went back to some of those books that got him into so much trouble Yellow Dog/Asbo and particularly Asbo turned out to be a quite a surprise.
It was funny, like proper funny, and maybe it's because I've just gotten older and more bitter but I found it an absolute delight. I remember thinking as a kid he lost touch with the culture. But no, he still had it then.

The lady cop one was also pretty good, though it was unapologetically genre fiction.

>> No.22055417

>>22055189
RIP. great author

>> No.22055440

smoking a drinking spirits continuously tends to give you oesophageal cancer.

>> No.22055599

RIP Marty. London Fields and The Information are two of my favorite novels, and War Against Cliché is one of those nonfic collections I return to again and again. Just a delight to read, no matter the subject. Gonna have to check out Experience soon.

>> No.22055622

The vaccine claims another...

>> No.22055626

>>22055335
>They probably got HPV through gay sex and throat cancer from sucking eachother's cocks.

Amis wasn't gay at all.

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22055667

I got Matt Berry stuck in my head as the narrator of Money and it was hilarious. 10/10. Would recommend

>> No.22055678

>>22055626
He was a chain smoker who killed a bottle of whisky a day. That'll tend to give you throat cancer.
Why are you obsessed with the gays?

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22055703

trust the SCIENCE

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22055896

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
What a sickener. Hilarious bloke, one of the funniest writers ever born.

>> No.22056142

>>22055189
>no sticky

>> No.22056304

where is the sticky

>> No.22056430

>>22055703
Science is for testing. When properly used it does stamp out the fire of idiocy that is revealed religion.
What theists are fond of reminding me of is that the human mind is always looking for things to believe in, and have often run back to churchmen for their grounding. This is the tendency that makes “scientism” a reality, unfortunately. The feeble minded have been recently fooled into believing the secularist church of state, specifically the CDC and its pope “dr” Fauchi. The shame of this isn’t lost on me and many others in the scientific community.

>> No.22056451

>>22056142
Cormac McCarthy will die and these mother fuckers will not sticky it.

A literal who metal guitarist ODs and they’ll sticky that

>> No.22056558

OoooOooOOOooooooo
Where’s my sticky! I was friends with Hitchens and Rushdie you know.

>> No.22056680

>>22055219
throat cancer is caused by HPV contracted from BJ's.

>> No.22056744

Best Amis books would be Money, Success, London Inferno, Lucky Jim, and New Face In Hell. Gutted he's dead, he deserves a stinky.

>> No.22056746

He wrote nothing of significance. RIP mediocrity.

>> No.22057164

I've always found post war British fiction pretty lightweight compared to the Americans. Amis, Self, McEwan vs Updike, McCarthy, Roth.
Somehow not true of poetry, Prynne and Hill and Hughes can stand with your Ashberys or your Glucks.

>> No.22057167

Dead boomer storage

>> No.22057169

>>22055226
good selection. Want to get into it. I remember a rather harsh criticism of Hitchens, which claimed that he had ripped off the structure of his memoir from Amis but in a cheap fashion. Amis had done it earlier and better, it seems.

>> No.22057172

should unironically be a sticky.

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>>22057172
Post2015 /lit/ isn't remotely interested in literature. No sticky for Amis is an example of this.
Fuck the mods and Jannies for letting this happen.

>> No.22057424

>>22056430
You will never be a scientist by being part of the audience (or greater scientism of which you claim to be divorced from), so there's no need to attempt an appeal to Biologists Chemists or Physicists with the platitudes of the fedora tipping ideology although you can try your luck with social-scienctists instead.

>> No.22057440

>>22055189
>Agnostic
lol burning hell now

>> No.22057474

>>22057440
Stop pretending to be a Christian, CHANTARD.

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22057556

mods are all mutts

>> No.22057641

>>22055440
He was a smoker?
Well hopefully he will be smoking the devil’s cock in hell for the rest of eternity.

>> No.22057651

>>22057440
the lack of knowing is a necessary component of FAITH

>> No.22057712

>>22055323
Just premiered at Cannes

>> No.22057816
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22057816

>There weren't any serpents in this garden, but there were flies: in the middle distance, vague flecks of death – and then, up close, armoured survivalists with gas-mask faces. And there were silky white butterflies. And great drunken bees, throbbing orbs that seemed to carry their own electrical resonance; when they collided with something solid – tree bole, statuary, flowerpot – they twanged back and away, the negative charge repelled by the positive.
The quieter, lyrical side to his writing is typically overlooked.

>> No.22057865

>>22055189
Holy shit

>> No.22057876

Some of his talks and interviews on youtube -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstM4agcqzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1QNdBRUedU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eepabatmMSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHAqe-zLrGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3xV-6eRCFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJFJNDbieQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkG7sj2lARI

>> No.22057902

>>22055207
Inside story

>> No.22057917

>>22057876
Find it very hard to take people with that accent seriously. Keep expecting him to try to persuade me to vote Conservative

>> No.22058460

>>22057917
Vote Conservative.

>> No.22058599

"Now my parting words to you would normally be: I’ll see you – or some slightly different version of you – in due course, in 2021, say, or soon thereafter. But next August I enter my seventieth year. There are a good few short stories I mean to get done (most of them about race in America), and I have in mind a third fiction about the Third Reich – a modest novella. You see, another full-length fiction, let alone another long fiction, now seems unlikely. Time will tell. Maybe towards the end I’ll just shut up and read… In which case, oh, I’ll miss it, I’ll grieve for everything about it, even its pains, trifling and fleeting compared to its pleasures, but formidable in their way. With every work of fiction, with every voyage of discovery, you’re at some point utterly becalmed (like Conrad on the Otago), and you drop overboard and sink through the fathoms until you reach the following dual certainty: that not only is the book you’re writing no good, no good at all, but also that every line you’ve ever written is no good either, no good at all. Then, when you’re deep down there, among the rocks and the shipwrecks and the blind and brainless bottomfeeders, you touch sand, and can start to gird yourself to kick back up again."

>> No.22059323

>>22055189
>No sticky
/lit/ is dead.

>> No.22059368

>>22056142
>>22056304
>>22057172
>>22059323
Do you really want that? The thread is shitposty enough as it is; inviting 400 /pol/zoomers to fight about Christopher Hitchens wouldn't improve a thing. Best to pay tribute and move on. Those who get it get it.

>> No.22059713

>>22055189
Surreal that we had a thread about him just a day before his passing. Either way it's certainly a loss. I enjoyed watching his interviews but his fiction wasn't for me. I am sure he was a fine writer but the English provincialism that colored his non-fiction could get a little grating. Yes Martin I know you adore these writers but surely you have something else to say about them?

May our Lord bless and comfort you and your family during this time of grief.