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Money (Paperback)

by Martin Amis (Author)
Key Phrases: cool pants, chain artist, john self, New York, Fat Paul, Lorne Guyland (more...)

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Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the '80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career.

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The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money and the disasters it can precipitate. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (March 4, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140088911
ISBN-13: 978-0140088915
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (66 customer reviews)

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New York, Fat Paul, Lorne Guyland, Butch Beausoleil, Doris Arthur, Martin Amis, Alec Llewellyn, Martina Twain, Fielding Goodney, Caduta Massi, Fat Vince, Selina Street, Spunk Davis, Terry Linex, Animal Farm, Frank the Phone, Nub Forkner, Happy Isles, Bank Street, Fifth Avenue, Barry Self, Christopher Meadowbrook, Third Avenue, Twenty-Third Street, Royal Wedding

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Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell on page 189, page 190, and page 204
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5.0 out of 5 stars "I have money but I can't control it.", June 30, 2004

By	D. Mikels "It's always Happy Hour here" (Skunk Holler) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Money. It makes the world go 'round, and that's the problem. It seems the Earth's spinning on its axis has less to do with physics and more to do with those who don't have money chasing those who have it. And novelist/satirist Martin Amis cashes in on the corrupting influence of currency with his delightfully savage book, MONEY.

Director John Self is a self-admitted loser. There's not much to like about him: he smokes too much, drinks too much--he's an irresponsible buffoon with an addiction to porn and prostitutes. But he's got money, and as he waits for the financing of his next film to come together, he makes London and New York his sinful playgrounds. Leapfrogging back and forth across the pond, he leaves a shambled trail of self-destruction in his wake. Over the course of his bizarre journey, John shares his thoughts and philosophy on the intricacies of life: Life according to John Self, a drunken bugger with money. In fact, the story happily plays a second fiddle to John's reflections, and John's reflections carry the story from one zany mishap to the next.

Amis is sheer genius. He writes with a demented pomposity--a politically incorrect finger-in-your-eye--that has the reader laughing one moment, cringing the next. With a clever tongue-in-cheek device to show nothing is sacred, he even inserts himself into the story. It's fascinating reading, as Amis allows his protagonist's thoughts to wander all over the dysfunctional map of human corruption (often within the same paragraph). MONEY is a triumphant satire that blasts away at our consumer culture and reveals our fragile human foibles. It is the type of book I wish I had the backbone to write.
--D. Mikels, Author, WALK-ON

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar comic novel, October 11, 2006

By	Sirin (London, UK) - See all my reviews

Writing doesn't get any funnier than this. Readers who find deep vein humour in black, sexual comedy such as Portnoy's Complaint and (even blacker), Lolita, will revel in Money. The unreliable narrator, John Self is a brilliantly drawn character. Physically and emotionally repulsive, materialistic, a string of unwholesome vices - drugs, porn, fast food, dirty women and most of all money, and a stunning voice which is at one yobbish yet shamefully poetic.

In fact, Martin Amis has declared this to be a voice novel. When form goes out the window and the voice takes over. Like Saul Bellow finding his broad, socially and intellectually panoramic style in The Adventures of Augie March, Amis finds the voice to skewer the absurditites of Western Urban Capitalism, and the disorientated place of the modern male within the system. Money contains so many of the classic Amis riffs and set pieces - the tennis match, the dinner party, the brothel visits, the porn shows - as John Self is put through one humiliation after another in his pursuit of Mammon. The comic detail is stunning. There are so many exquisite phrases. Amis learns from another of his major literary heroes, Nabokov, and distorts the aesthetic, baroque high style into a low life screamer of a book. Marvellous.

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5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely the best, September 12, 1999

By	Michael A. Smith "mikesmith329" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of the most well-written and funny books you'll ever read. My copy has multiple dog ears because I keep going back to look up this or that hilarious passage: Lorne Guyland's rambling dissertations, John Self's drunken careen through a NY restaurant, the chess game near the end (an amazing metaphor-packed *action* scene that you'll read wide-eyed at the fact that anyone could write with such style). Some readers don't seem to understand that you're supposed to despise John Self while still marveling at his antics. I feel bad for those people; I feel pity for those people--oh yes. But for those who like densely written, wildly stylish fiction that also has a point, from a writer at the top of his game, you *must* read this book!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous writing.
Eloquent and heavy. A fine read. Didn't entirely grab me, but there were some absolutely gorgeously written passages, insights, and affecting scenes.

Published 6 months ago by Lee Dale

4.0 out of 5 stars Everything has its price . . .
(Actually, I'd go 3.5 stars on this, mainly for the unnecessary toughness of the first 60 pages)

I've often referred to Amis whenever the issue of writing... Read more

Published 6 months ago by Ryan Werner

2.0 out of 5 stars Drunks don't make interesting protagonists
For the most part, I believe drunks like John Self in this novel, crazy people like the Australian pianist in the movie who's name I can't remember, and blow-hards like Citizen... Read more

Published 8 months ago by Charles Dickens Dave

5.0 out of 5 stars DIARY OF A LOUT
Sure Martin drops the ball at the very, very end. But, until then, this is "in my opinion" the best, the funniest, the greatest celebration of pure loutishness every written. Read more

Published 12 months ago by A NYC Screenwriter

5.0 out of 5 stars A savage funny monologue
This is a novel written in the early 80's and is one long monologue about money and what chasing money, having money( and not having money) does to John Self the central... Read more

Published 17 months ago by John

4.0 out of 5 stars Money- the new face of the British novel
Martin Amis's Money flies in the face of the nostalgic critic who would say that the best of British fiction is in the past. Read more

Published on June 28, 2007 by Clark Gable

3.0 out of 5 stars I haven't finished the book
Great style of writing, but somehow the book lost me somewhere in the middle. It is about John Self, newly rich who burns his life and chases more money. Read more

Published on February 17, 2007 by Y. Smetannikov

4.0 out of 5 stars quirky fun
Martin Amis's Money is a stumbling, swirling, sodden romp though the protagonist's brain. As anti-hero John Self bounces back and forth between London and New York, pursuing a... Read more

Published on October 11, 2006 by SF Reader

4.0 out of 5 stars Amis' Best
Perhaps the best of Martin Amis' novels; he seems to have been struggling to reinvent himself - with highly variable levels of success - in the years since. Read more

Published on September 17, 2006 by David Alston

4.0 out of 5 stars It is an alluring dream, is it not?
John Self, named such by Amis to represent all of humanity, is a man whose world is controlled by money and sex. Read more

Published on September 6, 2006 by Jonathan Stephens

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