Another reader declared: "You cannot separate Auschwitz from the comments you just made about the old people.
"Hearing you observe that the Holocaust began with euthanasia camps, I'm reassured that the comments reported about euthanasia booths were a kind of satire of attitudes to ageing." "No, I mean it quite seriously – it's utopian, of course, it will never happen." Amis embarked on a defence of the ailing individual's right to end it all. Especially when someone took it seriously."
"I thought the booths for old people idea was hilarious. Some readers presumed he was winding us up. We were discussing Time's Arrow on the very day that the author had created headlines by advocating "euthanasia booths" for aged citizens who had tired of living. Its purpose is to show off its own cleverness." "Yes, he's pretty clever," says another, "but he exhausted his brand of cleverness after London Fields."Īmong the comments, there was more than one tagged "this comment has been removed by a moderator". Time's Arrow, says one, is "a dismal book.
The complainers, to be sure, tend to brandish a word that, in another place, might be thought to praise: "clever". The sceptics angrily complain that he has conned the book-buying public the enthusiasts debate the ranking of their top five "MA novels". He is a "bigot" he is empty of talent he is brilliant, the most cunning satirist. Whatever the explanation, you only have to look at the comments on the Book Club website to confirm the impression of a writer who provokes readers – to denunciation or to delight. "So I'm sort of the Prince Charles of literature." He had become the British novelist about whom "you can say absolutely anything you like". While taught not to mock any person for their background, we were all free to despise Prince Charles (and he could see good reasons to do so). "I wonder why you think you have been such a target over the years?" When he set out to be a writer, had he imagined that he would excite so much antagonism? "No I didn't – everyone was so nice to me when I began." He thought it was to do with his father. T he very last person to ask Martin Amis a question when he came to talk about Time's Arrow to the Guardian Book Club put his finger on something.
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