Comments on: Martin Amis’ “The Information” http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-reviews/the-information/ Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger, Web Programmer Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Wouter Noordewier http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-reviews/the-information/#comment-2981 Wouter Noordewier Sun, 11 May 2008 12:14:03 +0000 http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/?p=73#comment-2981 How easy life can be... I have just read The Information during a long night in which, like a typical reader of Tull's novel Untitled, I spat a mouthful of blood every twenty minutes. At five o'clock in the morning I finished the book full of contradictory feelings, and called for an ambulance. I have successfully been operated on in some Hick's hospital (Frantic search for injection-needles, etc.) and have slept for four fruitful hours. Well, I must say I easily (glibly? naturally?) endorse the opinion of Mr Edelman. I'm great at having mixed feelings, and always enjoyed them, but not this time. I may have risked death by reading on till the end, but - together with numerous thumbnail markings wherever I intend(ed) plagiarizing Mr Amis - I must also confess reading this book has been a gruelling experience. My Problem was: Why? Wording it proved to be too forceul a mental task. So I googled up The Information and lo and behold, Edelman deftly (the man does have a wide vocabulary, which he handles wit natural ease) worded everything for me! Of course I will read other books by Mr Amis, who has just provided me with some 30 passages, sentences and word combinations smoothly insertable in my 540 p. novel called 'Roman-Die-Nooit-Afkomt' (Never-Ending-Novel), already published, but being made fatter and fatter by the same procédé, till it reaches 1300 pp. Kind regards to everybody Wouter Noordewier How easy life can be… I have just read The Information during a long night in which, like a typical reader of Tull’s novel Untitled, I spat a mouthful of blood every twenty minutes. At five o’clock in the morning I finished the book full of contradictory feelings, and called for an ambulance. I have successfully been operated on in some Hick’s hospital (Frantic search for injection-needles, etc.) and have slept for four fruitful hours. Well, I must say I easily (glibly? naturally?) endorse the opinion of Mr Edelman. I’m great at having mixed feelings, and always enjoyed them, but not this time. I may have risked death by reading on till the end, but - together with numerous thumbnail markings wherever I intend(ed) plagiarizing Mr Amis - I must also confess reading this book has been a gruelling experience. My Problem was: Why? Wording it proved to be too forceul a mental task. So I googled up The Information and lo and behold, Edelman deftly (the man does have a wide vocabulary, which he handles wit natural ease) worded everything for me!

Of course I will read other books by Mr Amis, who has just provided me with some 30 passages, sentences and word combinations smoothly insertable in my 540 p. novel called ‘Roman-Die-Nooit-Afkomt’ (Never-Ending-Novel), already published, but being made fatter and fatter by the same procédé, till it reaches 1300 pp.

Kind regards to everybody

Wouter Noordewier

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