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The Incredible Hulk by Peter David5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Maybe it's me 'The Green Man' has gathered some glowing reviews over the years, but I struggled to finish it. Amis writes some great lines and there are plenty of funny, caustic observations, but it's complacent and self-satisfied the ghostly elements are neither scary nor metaphorically profound the character study one of someone in whom I'm just not that interested. Rightly or wrongly, I've always pegged Amis père as typical of a certain strain of 20th century British fiction: smug, parochial and self-absorbed, and this is all of those things, but it's also just a bit dull. It all sounded so promising yet I found this book a flavourless chore. ![]() ![]() Centred around a lecherous reprobate angling for a threesome in the wake of his father's death, 'The Green Man' features the ghost of a 17th century occultist, a Jack-In-The-Green-style homunculus and even an encounter with God. Fruity excursion into genre fiction with this 1969 ghost story from that mayfly doyen of the British post-war literary scene, Kingsley Amis. ![]()
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