From: I. Zelnik
Category: Amis
Date: 6/17/99
Time: 9:19:10 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.32
Click on that address for a bitchadelic hatchet-job from Martin Cropper. Cropper dismisses *Money* & *London Fields* as "overblown burlesques, nuked by Ideas". Amis is guilty of "rhetorical proliferation" & "self-plagiarism". Cropper thinks that Nicola Six is a cartoon character trying to pass for a 3-D character. Nicola "may be prepared to die, but she has forgotten how to breathe". Cropper praises *Success* (structurally a "double helix") & *Other People* (structurally a "Möbius strip"). Cropper reveals a paternal parallel between Terry Service and Rose West (the co-murderer of Lucy Partington). Terry Service's father and Rose West's father were both "punctilious, slow-burning domestic tyrants given to pyrotechnical rage". And both Terry Service & Rose West were left physically unharmed by their fathers.