I'm sorry, E, I can't do it. We promised to make an effort and I've tried, but I don't think... no, I know I can't do it. This is the first of our Rory Gilmore challenge books I'm DNFing. I hate this book. I've read three chapters, 67 pages out of 541, and I already know it won't change my mind ...
Atonement centers around an event that changes and ruins lives, the leading up to that event and the consequences of that event. “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that oth...
I loved McEwan's prose style, and there are scenes in this book I know are going to haunt me. Part I, written in omniscient, takes place on one Summer day in 1935 and covers different perspectives, the most crucial being that of thirteen year old Briony who commits the "crime" against Robbie and her...
Δυνατό σε όλα.Ο λόγος του δουλεμένος στην εντέλεια - τόσο που συχνά χαζεύεις τη γλώσσα και χάνεις την υπόθεση.Οι χαρακτήρες είναι δίπλα σου. Η εποχές και οι σκηνές επίσης.Οφείλω να ομολογήσω ότι ο γυναικείος χαρακτήρας είχε ένα τεράστιο συναισθηματικό κενό, σε όλο το βιβλίο, και γι αυτό θα έβαζα 4/5...
This. Book. Drove. Me. Nuts. Did I sabotage the book by opting to watch the movie first? Maybe. Or would it have turned out this way regardless? I'll never know. I like the idea of this book. Ian McEwan's definition of atonement is as dazzling as it is strange. I also love the prose. So rich a...
I don't generally read books about the war - or at least this was the case when I first read this book - but I really enjoyed it. It's quite heartbreaking. McEwan was able to make me care for the young couple so much that I kept rooting for them even when it seemed hopeless. I would recommend this ...
Beautiful, heartbreaking. Though a period piece, very relevant to a century of impulse and rumour. Exquisite writing; meticulous and yet natural and delightful to read. Truly genius.
I don't know whether it's pretentious to like this book, or maybe that's even passé and the new way to be smugly tasteful is to say this book was 'just ok', but fuck all that, historical fiction set in World War II? Turn-on. Beautiful prose? Turn-on. Moral ambiguity? Turn-on. I don't know if other p...
I saw the movie for Atonement years ago (when it first came out) and have sort of intentionally waited to read the book so that some of the plot and imagery were out of my head. I have read some of McEwan's other stuff and tend to like him and was excited to see what the book offers that was not as...
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