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    <body><![CDATA[Very very unsettling. McEwan manages to look at sex in a thoroughly unnerving and disturbing way while maintaining the veneer of normalcy in the stories. Just too weird for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i decided to plow through mcewan's body of work and am discovering that i really really like him, but kind of loathe his early books. ugh. they're dull and mannered and gimmicky. and this one is the bottom of the barrel. and while i don't particularly enjoy slamming a writer i admire i find it encou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31599902">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book written by Ian McEwan, which includes 7 very disturbing short stories.  I was leary of it because of the title and table of contents, but decided to read anyway due to this self-imposed goal to get through all of Ian McEwan's books.  Honestly, I didn't understand most of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8033933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This a collection of some of the early short stories of the acclaimed British writer Ian McEwan. They show a broad range of literary styles and thematic interests, but McEwan's characteristic prose style (very smoothly flowing sentences and ideas) and deep interest in sexuality is on beautiful displ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11349039">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A bizarre yet readable group of short stories. Easy to read, yet not sure how memorable they are.  I recommend it, but note that this was written by McEwan while still a young (thirties ;)) author. I would recommend comparing this book to some of his more recent works for his view on human nature.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a bit glad that McEwan went away from his &quot;Macabre&quot; moniker after his first four books, because while he writes sexy/creepy quite well (a British Mary Gaitskill), the stories sort of blended together for me. I think <em>The Cement Garden</em> is the best of early Ian.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Bad. <br/><br/>My history with Ian McEwan is probably in order - maybe 10 years ago, someone gave me his first collection of short stories, &quot;First Love, Last Rites&quot;. I loved it, short little filthy stories that were mysterious yet left you with a feeling that you'd discovered someth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16990844">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Ian McEwan's second publication and, as with his first endeavor (&quot;First Love, Last Rites&quot;), is a collection of short stories.<br/><br/>Again, McEwan shows that the short story can be lifted to high art in the hands of a gifted writer and, regardless your opinion of him, most will...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46572076">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I confess to adoration for this genius at words.  Even if he does &quot;digress, his lyricism never bores...&quot;  My reaction is to wander amongst nervous giggling, horror, deep, dark kinkiness ... His seemingly genetic darkness is on full display here.  <br/><br/>I wish I would have read his wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57883162">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book of short stories was probably published in the hope that it would sell because of McEwan's success with two excellent books - Amsterdam and Atonement.  Hyped as &quot;transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the psyche&quot;, the stories held little interest for me. Oates is better...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49958991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that is criticism-proof, by virtue of being just so shocking and wrong. The horrifying things that happen in each story are so overwhelming that no story could actually contain or make sense of them, yet they leave indelible marks on you as a reader. Yikes!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love his recent novels SATURDAY, ATONEMENT, and CHESIL BEACH, but found only one story here that I really loved: &quot;Reflections of a Kept Ape&quot;. The rest left me kind of bored and wishing for more style or story or something.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.<br/><br/>At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, <strong>In Between the Sheets</strong> is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Una buena introducción antes de leer a Bukowski, ¿o tal vez al revés?. Muy en la onda existencial-vida basura-mujeres-drogas-la nada. Me gustó a pesar de lo sórdido, ¿o tal vez por eso?...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.<br/><br/>At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, <strong>In Between the Sheets</strong> is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting stories - some better than others.  All of them deal with sex in some way, and most (this is McEwan, after all) are upsetting.  My favorites and recommendations would be &quot;Pornography,&quot; &quot;Dead as They Come,&quot; and &quot;To and Fro.&quot;  Admittedly, though, I'm going to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40888649">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The second collection of short stories.<br/><br/>Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Found this in a bookstore in Nairobi and I'm a sucker for Ian McEwan, particularly his macabre stuff! ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.<br/><br/>At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, <strong>In Between the Sheets</strong> is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an uneven collection of short stories by an author I hold in very high regard.]]></body>
    
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