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Old 02-19-2011, 01:31 AM   #69
Maggie Leung
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I like Martin Amis' honesty and bluntness. He talked about how he re-read his first book, The Rachel Papers, in 2010 because he was writing another book set in the same time period and his assessment of his own book was that it was incredibly crude, cack-handed and clumsily put together.
Yes, I wouldn't recommend "The Rachel Papers." If that had been the first Amis book I'd read, I doubt I would have read others, lol.
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