Bobbi's review
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Your review must be poetic justice for this one, thanks!
Bobbi's review
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Bobbi's review
rating:
recommended for: indecisive,self-effacing ninnies
Was McEwan's point in writing this book to reinforce the stereotype of British men as as indecisive, self-effacing ninnies, afraid of their own shadows? Or was that men in general? Or the West?
Or was he trying to show that those who profess pacifism in the public square will defend themselves when roused, and that those who claim another viewpoint are just full of bull?
Whatever his point, he made it tiresomely. Saturday, which was rapturously recommended to me by a stranger on an airplane, reminded me of Christopher Darden's prosecution of the domestic violence allegations against O.J. Simpson. I was left wondering: how can such an articulate man snatch -- or rather slowly draw -- tedium out of the jaws of suspense?
Or was he trying to show that those who profess pacifism in the public square will defend themselves when roused, and that those who claim another viewpoint are just full of bull?
Whatever his point, he made it tiresomely. Saturday, which was rapturously recommended to me by a stranger on an airplane, reminded me of Christopher Darden's prosecution of the domestic violence allegations against O.J. Simpson. I was left wondering: how can such an articulate man snatch -- or rather slowly draw -- tedium out of the jaws of suspense?
Your review must be poetic justice for this one, thanks!