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I loved this book. I know a lot of people walk around sporting huge book boners for Ian McEwan and after my first McEwan novel (Saturday) I didn't get it, because that one was a bit lame in my opinion. Of course after I read it, I had about a million people tell me that it was a bad one to start with, but what can you do? The point being I wasn't expecting to be completely bowled over by this one, but I was.
It started off a little slow but for the past couple days I've had a hard time putting t ...more
It started off a little slow but for the past couple days I've had a hard time putting t ...more
A pick from an earlier book club. This book actually caused me to gasp in disbelief. I never saw the twist at the end coming. Great writing and flawed characters move the story through to a brilliant end.
I would have given this book 3.5 if I could have. While I really enjoyed the first part, the character development and the plot line, the second and third parts I didn't find to be as good and the epilogue was kind of pointless to me. What made me go up to 4 instead of down to 3 was the initial idea and how well written it was. I guessed most of the outcome rather quickly but Briony in the first part has to be worth the four stars alone. It's very graphic with war and subsequently gore in parts
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I was confused by the movie and thought the book might clairify some of the details.
Dec 17, 2008
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Kristen
marked it as couldn-t-finish
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