My current reading

by Amrit Hallan on June 11, 2006

I’m currently reading Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog. Yes, I finally completed Shalimar the Clown this weekend — I’ll write about it this week.

I’ve just read 15 pages of Yellow Dog so I haven’t got much to say. I’ve been thinking of reading Amis for more than a year. I had no idea what the book was about; randomly selected it. Right now my take is that…well…I wonder why he is such a talked about author. The 15 pages have bored me so far, but I’ll read the whole book and only then I’ll say what I think about him, or about his book. Right now his pondering seems like a collection of incoherent, broken sentences.

  • http://www.noidaunplugged.blogspot.com ashish singh

    Hey Amit,

    I am a big fan of Martin Amis, also his dad Kingsley (Lucky Jim). I haven’t read yellow dog – but I have read all the others. Maybe you have just picked up the wrong book – you may want to start off with his people essays, its put together in a book called “The Moronic Inferno”. If you have a taste for black and bad and sad and funny all at the same time – he’s your man. Will read yellow dog.

  • http://www.amrithallan.com Amrit

    Hi Ashish.

    Many people, directly or indirectly, have recommended Amis so that’s why he was my first priority when I purchased books for my current reading. And thanks for referring another title, I’ll definitely look for it during my next purchase.

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