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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6862.Amsterdam?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Amsterdam" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604772m/6862.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6862.Amsterdam?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Amsterdam</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2408.Ian_McEwan">Ian McEwan</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16301918?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Clive Linley, a music genius, was working on a simphony for the new millenia. Vernon Halliday, editor of the daily newspaper ‘The Judge’, was desperately trying to increase the paper’s circulation figures. Both are the former lovers of Molly Lane, an energetic garderner who sometime before her death found that she had lost the control of her body function and therefore has to be cared by her husbang, George Lane. She must had been a very beautifull woman, this Molly Lane, since apart from Clive, Vernon, and George, she was also loved by Jullian Garmony, a despicable Foreign Secretary. <br/> <br/>The story evolves around Clive and Vernon. There was a detailed description on how Clive had to build an atmosphere around him in order to write each specific part of his symphony, how he had to go a special walk to find the perfect ending of his music. The silent atmosphere around Clive, the way McEwan describes each scene, had me come to a conclusion that it is true that writting is a lonely profession, that includes writting a piece of music. <br/> <br/>Meanwhile, it was the oposite in Vernon’s part of the world. His hectic schedule, the many people he has to relate in his works, his appointments and meeting. In fact, throught the book, I see Vernon connects to other characters by going places, while Clive stood perfectly still in his solitude. <br/> <br/>Molly’s death brings Clive and Vernon to a pact where the will not see each other die the way Molly did. It was a humiliation for the two of them having somebody take care of you up until the point where your privacy is no longer existed. However, the end of Clive and Vernon has nothing to do with physicall illness rather than their carrier’s downfall. Clive’s symphony was a disaster, according to the music director who played his music, not to mention there was a similarity with Beethoven’s piece in the end part. Vernon’s death warrant was the pictures of Jullian Garmony, taken by Molly during their time together, published as a mean to bring down Garmony’s political carrier. When Garmony’s wife defended her husband with a smart TV interview, Vernos’ day in the newspaper business was ended. <br/> <br/>The book is very well written, the story was beautifully wrote. I actually looking forward to another McEwan’s book. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/933535?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>