And now along comes Everest,
a brilliant dramatisation of tragically real events that, quite simply, is one of the most powerful and moving films I've seen all year.
Because he wasn't quite like my John Self — something that's always going to be a problem in
dramatisations of well - loved novels, especially well - loved novels as character - centric as Money, Martin Amis's
brilliant and hilarious portrait of greed and anarchic self - destruction.