by Ian McEwan
Every time I approach an Ian McEwan review—all but the first time, I guess—I feel some dread. McEwan is an author who garners such strong opinions, good and bad. Some think he is a hack writer, overly elaborate with his prose and plots, offensive to say the least. Others think he has incredible tale...
I've been reading my way through Ian McEwan's oeuvre these last several years, including one of his books on my summer reading list each year. Made it through most of his 21st century works, so now I'm working my way backwards and picking up the new ones as they come along. Today, I read "The C...
I first read this Ian McEwan book (The Comfort of Strangers) a few years ago and I loved it so much that I wanted to re-read it. Now that I have, I’ve learnt a valuable lesson; you can’t re-read a suspense novel and get the same awful sense of foreboding that I remember having the first time around....
we are on goodreads, presumably, to meet disturbingly contrary opinions, so that degree, I'm chuffed (haha UK only word)... I'm chuffed that one of the publishing industry professionals here has put out a contrary take on Arthur Golden's MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. I both understand and agree with this boo...
Like the post-9/11 milieu that permeated [b:Saturday|5015|Saturday|Ian McEwan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348472398s/5015.jpg|2307189], and [b:Black Dogs|6871|Black Dogs|Ian McEwan|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320533114s/6871.jpg|2493679]'s Cold War spell well before it, The Comfort of Strangers ...
Holy Moly! Kids, don't talk to strangers! Definitely the weirdest and most twisted McEwan I had so far, in the fashion of Enduring Love I dare say.
i expect short stories, or stories under 200 pages to be better crafted, better edited, etc. nice deal, but ultimately its this detail that seems to cloud the direction of the novel as well as the author's aspirations and goals. To certain extend i didnt like the prose, but also I felt that i didnt ...
I "discovered" Ian McEwan a few years ago. From my reading I think that you can draw a dividing line through his works. The latter works are literary and refined and seem to me to be character studies that dwell on the inner thoughts and (abnormal) psychology of the characters. On Chesil Beach and...
One of the most disturbing books I've encountered; disturbance doesn't hit until last 30 pages
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