I love the movie. I really do. However, there are special cases where the book is less vibrant than its adaptation and for me Atonement is one of them. If you haven't watch the movie yet, please do. It is one of my favorite movie of all time with great actors, actresses, cinematography and music and...
this is a four-star book, but I can't bring myself to give it four stars because of *expectation*... book starts, english upper class, pre-war, servants and linen and silver, and then... bam. a hidden wall. the writer can't actually penetrate upper class anxieties and realities, so we quickly cop ou...
McEwan's Sweet Tooth sounds really interesting to me (meta!) but Jennifer dislikes it, so the plan is to read this (a must on my list at some point) first and then see how I feel.
It's unfortunate that a writer of such talent has the name of the guy you do not notice in the cubicle next door, and so it does not sound that exciting to drop his name into conversation. That is about the only criticism that I have of the book.There are lots of things that are unpromising about i...
'I had written him a letter which I had, for want of betterKnowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,Just "on spec", addressed as follows: "Clancy, of The Overflow"'To borrow the opening verse of a famous Australian po...
Ian McEwan is an author I have ambivalent feelings toward. I have loved his work, hated his work or found it totally average. So, you understand why I picked this up with rather confused expectations. Thankfully though, this is one of the good ones. More than that in fact, it's one of the great one...
Few books have affected my emotions as this one did. Mix together a thirteen girl possessed with an overactive imagination and a flair for the dramatic, who has a secret crush on a young man who she witnesses in an embrace with her sister, the social class system of the early 20th century and a mani...
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