http://www.cynicalreviewer.com Great Apes by Will Self||||22||||2009/7/24 A man wakes up in a world where chimpanzees have evolved to be the dominant species with self-awareness, while humans are the equivalent of chimps in our world. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=22 Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys by Will Self||||21||||2009/7/24 Young black brothers Danny and Tembe discover the eponymous rock behind a wall in their basement. They begin chipping off lumps and selling it, slowly amassing wealth and eventually a reputation. A reputation that invites attention from other dealers and worse still, The Yardies. (and other stori http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=21 How The Dead Live by Will Self||||20||||2009/7/24 The story follows Lily Bloom's encounter with the afterlife after dying from cancer. After being transported to new lodgings near Dalston accompanied by her Aboriginal spirit guide Phar Lap Jones, Rude Boy her dead 9 year old son and a lithopedian foetus she soon starts to adapt and learn the ways o http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=20 Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self||||19||||2009/7/24 Dr. Shiva Mukti is an overworked psychiatric doctor working in London. He feels dissatisfied. After an encounter with Dr Zack Busner the two begin trading patients of interest. However it soon becomes clear that despite Busner's failing health he is determined to exact his calculated revenge upon Dr http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=19 Psycho Too by Will Self||||18||||2009/7/24 Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from 'Psychogeography', the columns they contributed to t http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=18 Cock and Bull by Will Self||||17||||2009/7/24 Cock and Bull is the title of a volume composed of two novellas by Will Self, which includes the stories, Cock and Bull. The two stories are characterized by empty, emotionless, phatic sex; rape; cruelty; and violence. The book was originally published in 1993 by Penguin Books and later in 2006 re-p http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=17 My Idea of Fun by Will Self||||16||||2009/7/24 Arguably Will Self's greatest novel (argued by me, Cynical Reviewer!). The first half of the novel is the best collection of words written by anyone at anytime. The plot unravels slightly toward the end with Self's imagination-fever stretching incredulity passed the point of elasticity. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=16 Liver by Will Self||||15||||2009/7/24 "This inspired collection of four stories uses the liver as framework and controlling metaphor – there’s a tale for each lobe – but is less interested in the organ as a metabolic regulator than in what happens when it’s damaged beyond repair. At this point, Self’s gift for (ahem) bilious satire kick http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=15 Grey Area by Will Self||||14||||2009/7/24 Grey Area is the second collection of short stories by the author Will Self. The collection was first published in 1994. It comprises some of Self's commissioned work as well as a number of stories written specially for the anthology. As with Self's other collections the stories deal with post mo http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=14 The Book of Dave by Will Self||||13||||2009/7/24 The Book of Dave is about an angry and mentally-ill London Taxi driver named Dave Rudman, who writes and has printed on metal a book of his rantings against women and thoughts on custody rights for fathers. These stem from his anger with his ex-wife, Michelle, who he believes is unfairly keeping him http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=13 Other People by Martin Amis||||12||||2009/7/24 Mary, an amnesiac young woman, wakes and tries to piece together her life while using a new identity. The book starts as a comedy, moving on to be a thriller and then a horror story. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=12 Yellow Dog by Martin Amis||||11||||2009/7/24 Yellow Dog is the title of a 2003 novel by the British writer Martin Amis. Its setting, like many of Amis’s novels, is contemporary London. The novel contains several strands that appear to be linked, although a complete resolution of the plot is not immediately apparent. The main protagonist is http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=11 Heavy Water by Martin Amis||||10||||2009/7/24 Heavy Water and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Martin Amis. It was first published in 1998 by Jonathan Cape. It includes "Denton's Death" and "Let Me Count the Times" which comprised Two Stories published in 1994. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=10 Night Train by Martin Amis||||9||||2009/7/24 This book is told from the perspective of Detective Mike Hoolihan, a female detective who is charged with the task of finding the motivation for Jennifer Rockwell's suicide. Jennifer, a beautiful astrophysicist with a seemingly perfect life, has no reason to kill herself...or so it seems. Thematical http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=9 The Information by Martin Amis||||8||||2009/7/24 The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty year old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that both characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=8 House of Meetings by Martin Amis||||7||||2009/7/24 House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, is a 2006 novel about two brothers who share a common love interest while living in a Soviet gulag during the last decade of Stalin's rule. The novel centers around the modern-day (2004) recollections of the unnamed narrator/protagonist of his time spent in an A http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=7 The Second Plane by Martin Amis||||6||||2009/7/24 A non-fiction look at the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 in New York. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=6 Experience by Martin Amis||||5||||2009/7/24 Experience is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis. The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis' father, the famed author Kingsley Amis and first published in 2000. The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=5 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis||||4||||2009/7/24 Amis engages in several forms of reverse discourse including reverse dialogue, reverse narrative, and reverse explanation. Amis' use of these techniques is aimed to create an unsettling and irrational aura for the reader; indeed, one of the recurrent themes in the novel is the narrator's persistent http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=4 London Fields by Martin Amis||||3||||2009/7/24 London Fields is a park in Hackney, East London, but the novel is set in west London, like most of Amis's work. The park in which the narrator, Sam, walks with various characters — Nicola Six, Guy Clinch and Keith Talent — is Hyde Park in central London. Sam reminisces that he played in "London Fiel http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=3 Money by Martin Amis||||2||||2009/7/23 Money tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, in order to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitut http://www.cynicalreviewer.com/details.asp?ID=2