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Originally Posted by derek
As far as Dan Brown goes, shame on you!.
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Dan Brown is like a Reagan-inspired pop military fiction writer, correct?
Finished Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, sadly the last piece of Amis fiction I had not read. Of course it was amazing. The story is essentially the backwards tale (written in like 1989, or 90; the first backwards tale I know of) of one Tod Friendly, told by his doppelganger or alter-ego who experiences time backwards. The prose is also as perfect as the form:almost Beckett-ian or Joycean with the Amis-like flourish, and constant but not obvious hints to the narrators strange situation. And of course, in this Nabokovian romp, humor abounds despite a very serious topic (escape from the Holocaust--as a Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz, and the horrors of American life), which is perhaps, the weak link of the book--this overt serious topic.