Amis is a very good writer and he does stream of consciousness like not other, but sometimes it just goes on for too long and that is how I felt about this book.
Charles Highway is a few hours away from turning 20 and he feels like this is the end of adolescence so he sits back to review his life so far, but mostly his interactions with his family and his first love. But what most of it al comes down to is the realities of growing up and when you come to understand that in a lot of instances the build up to events is much more exciting than the actual even itself.
I think this is a very realistic look in to the mind of a teenage boy, very rude and bawdy, but also so self absorbed that I am not sure this story was very important to tell. Charles simply had no heart, so I walk away from the book glad to have it in my rear-view mirror.
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