false <![CDATA[Atonement]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255824310m/6867.jpg 6867 73 Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a crime that will change all their lives. As it follows that crime’s repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece. 2307233 book 2001 Atonement total:42143|5:11328|4:15216|3:9911|2:3858|1:1831| 42143 156783 59324 6619 5 39 false false Sun Nov 25 07:53:22 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 11:29:19 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 09:54:17 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 27 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 08:39:55 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 11:34:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 24 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 04:48:21 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 07:41:14 -0800 2008 Atonement, which quite impressed me when it was first published. And guess what? It was an even more rewarding experience the second time around. Knowing what was coming -- knowing the plot twist at the end -- helped...more...]]> 2 19 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 12:45:58 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 15:27:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 17 false false Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 07:54:50 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 14:12:35 -0800 2008
This book...I hate it! It's beautiful, every word of it is gorgeous, but it's as if the author spends all this time painstakingly crafting a really detailed, intricate vessel for you (I'm thinking of a boat :))and then ju...more...]]> 4 16 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 17:33:05 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 20:53:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 16 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 19:59:38 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 20:49:33 -0700 2007
The last 2/3 of this novel are as good as contemporary fiction gets. The first 1/3 is like reading a Jane Austen plot trapped in amber.
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I read Part 1 with suspense (even trepidati...more...]]> 3 10 false false Wed Jul 25 17:15:04 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 22:11:47 -0700 2007
"More than a little reminiscent of Woolf in its converging and diverging viewpoints, its serious concern with the portrayal of social and interior life... and of course the dinner-party scene. That part, I loved. I wasn't as keen on the la...more...]]> 2 8 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 19:57:20 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 03 08:36:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 26 07:20:22 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 21 08:33:20 -0700 2009 Atonement found itself in, perhaps, the strongest Booker Prize year of them all, so it's no surprise that Ian McEwan failed to pick up his second prize.

David Mitchell's number 9 dream, Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room, Ali Smith's Hotel World and Andrew Miller's Oxygen (the weakest of th...more...]]> 2 7 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 10:54:45 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:45:50 -0700 2008
I haven’t yet seen the movie since I just finished the book today, but perh...more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 13:38:47 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 09:43:07 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 12 14:07:46 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 19 13:40:58 -0700 2008 2 more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Jul 29 05:52:48 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 10:11:11 -0700 2007
The cover of Atonement is plastered with reviewers claiming it to be a 'masterpiece', and McEwan's best novel to date. I'd previously read his novel Enduring Love, and whilst I appreciated its merits as a literary piece, I was ne...more...]]> 4 5 false false Sun Jan 13 13:34:43 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 17:20:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false true Mon Jan 07 09:56:18 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 09:56:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 25 11:19:17 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 11:19:17 -0800 2007
favorite quotes (possible spoilers):

Chapter 1

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I have no problem with Ian McEwan’...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6867