is Martin Amis' blurb for Mood Swingers which is based on Dead Babies a book he happens to have written. Of all the words in this phrase only "acted" is truthful and even then demands the removal of the exclamation mark. Perhaps Martin was on a few of the pills depicted on the cover.
DB is outrageous as well as well-paced, surprising, and fun stemming from all the drug use, misogyny, sex, violence, creative cruelty, pathetic midgets and staggering redheads. This isn't the “outrageous” quality of Coupling, The Office, or Ab Fab but it gets the same treatment- the calculated delivery of lines which are supposed to shock. So the line “You are going to feel this up in your gut” is made queasy parody delivered as a piece of repartee.
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