Status Updates From House of Meetings

You must try hard to imagine it, the disgusting proximity of the state, its body odor, its breath on your neck, its stupidly expectant stare.

Yuck. Pretentious and vulgar simultaneously. The MC unapologetically 'raped his way across Europe' with the Russian army during WWII. He lusts after the memory of his brother's wife with an entitled 'I hounded her first' during their time in a prison camp. (She's a sexually-liberated Jewish woman who is routinely reduced to a collection of body parts when described living constantly under threat of death by pogrom.)

This is good but I just finished rereading Dune so everything else is a bit uninteresting in comparison for a while. Martin Amis is good. I will soon have more to say once the Dune effect dissipates