Michimo critic Kakutani wrote in his review in The New York Times :
Martin Amis has proven to be a writer of a huge array of literary talent: a dazzling mastery and camaleonesco language, a willingness to tackle major problems and even greater social canvas and relentless eye for unhealthy excitement of contemporary life. The only thing missing in his work, readers might have argued, it was emotional honesty, too often his writing has used a cold detachment and sardonic postmodern pyrotechnics instead of a sincere feeling.
This sincere feeling towards his father to his children, to women who loved and was abandoned (or not), to his friends and enemies, is what makes experience I liked much more than fiction I Read Martin Amis. Although the author is concerned about maintaining the type and composure, to write these pages has abandoned the pose of the coolest writer of both banks of the Thames, and his style makes a lot with that. Martin Amis says
had to wait for his father's death to write this book. Does not say, but it is clear from all that's telling, is how difficult it was to be measured for him all his life with a parent academic and writer Kingsley Amis height, a parent who also never denied pouring severe criticism on the novels of his son. Martin, however, does not hide his admiration for his father's work, which extensively quoted throughout the book, and it is possible that being able to admire as an author Kingsley will help to reconcile with the difficult person who had a father.
But out of all the anecdotal, voyeuristic and morbid offering this reading (much), the big surprise for me was to test how good a literary critic who is Amis. A writer speak good, bad or regulate their fellow workers is almost required in any autobiography. But Martin Amis knows what he's talking when he praises Nabokob, Joyce or Bellow, or criticizes with great subtlety and a huge load of poison to John Updike: da good valid arguments, and knows how to express and illustrate their arguments exemplary manner. Amis is a good writer (although I'm not so sure about that) but would have been a great literary scholar if his talent had been allowed to follow an academic career.
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