6 hours and no reply kind of answers the question

>>24682111
It's 7:53 in the British Isles.

>>24682164
no wonder you lost your empire with that attitude

I’ve only read Money and some of his essays. He’s a stylist but not much of a novelist. Money is more a bunch of sketches thrown together - it always feels like John Self is Amis doing a bit rather an actual person. I read the first few chapters of Lionel Asbo in an airport bookshop and it was dreadful stuff.
Time is not being kind to that group, Amis, McEwan, Barnes.

>>24682247
>McEwan, Barnes
I had completely forgotten about these two until you reminded me. I think I read Flaubert's Parrot a while back.

Depends. Money is pretty damn excellent. House of meetings and Zone of interest are quality. London Fields and Night Train are really solid mystery novels with just enough extra to make them feel like they are bigger than that.

To be honest my favorite book of his, by far, is Experience, his memoir. Followed by his two volumes of criticism which I still regularly reference when picking up something new.

He is a strange case. His essays can be dreadfully moralistic, all the stuff about nuclear war and 9/11 is embarrassing to read, unless he is writing about literature when he suddenly comes alive. The War Against Cliche is still the best book of popular criticism published in English this century.

>>24682247
McEwan still seems to get some traction when he puts out a new book every 6 months.

I liked Money a lot.
London Fields I liked parts of but thought the overriding frame was retarded.
Times Arrow was just pants on head retarded and annoying
I did enjoy his book of essays The War Against Cliche.

He’s a very good sentence writer. His grand concepts are usually meh at best though.

He’s a fine comedy of manners guy, but is always straining for the big bow wow. ‘Horrorism’ was special cringe.