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Take a girl like you
*Take a Girl Like You*, by Kingsley Amis (2025-09-06)

This excellent and neglected novel deserves a new look in our time.  As Christian Lorentzen points out in his useful introduction, if you are interested in (non-Submission) Houellebecq, this is the next place to go.  How exactly did we get on the Houellebecq sexual emptiness path to begin with?  This novel was published in 1960, and it shows the first steps toward the sexual revolution and the rise of more open sexual competition, with a nod in the direction of what the final results are going t...

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