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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49219.Enduring_Love?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Enduring Love" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1194633143m/49219.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49219.Enduring_Love?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Enduring Love</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/9609853?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>Well, this was my third attempt at reading McEwan, after Amsterdam and Atonement. Again, McEwan has let me down. The story is remarkably easy to read, and has a number of thrilling developments - as I was finishing it last night, I realized that I had balled my fingers up and had them almost at my throat as I read. That said, I don't feel like anything of substance actually developed. It appeared to me that McEwan parsed together two different things he had read - an article on a ballooning tragedy and a medical journal - and tried to link them together, without any real growth and change in the characters. I also found the dialogue to be exasperating, though it may be that British Keats scholars and science writers and religious fanatics actually do talk in such a stilted manner. <br/> <br/>I do not believe I will make a fourth pass at McEwan. I appreciate how his characters (both here and in Atonement) are grappling with the unforeseen consequences of their quite intentional acts, but the appeal of the themes he explores is not enough to overcome his tepid prose and unsatisfying narrative arcs. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/84818?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>