NYRB Classics: Take a Girl Like You (Paperback)

from davidroche

And he probably would have done

from the.ken.petersen

It is difficult to judge this book. It was written in 1960 and, by the standards of the day, was a racy little comedy. Sadly, time is not kind to racy little comedies and this is more of a history lesson of innocence than an amusing read. I can see that in its day, it would have been quite daring...

from Stensvaag

This work is pretty dated and left me ultimately unsatisfied.

from larryking1

With the end of May, so ends the Kingsley Amis Reading Month as well. Four books in all, one a ghost story of sorts, another a speculative fiction set inside a parallel universe, and two love stories. Every one of these novels was peopled with horrific, tawdry, distasteful people, save for Jenny ...