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Not a comfortable read, as always with Ian McEwan, but I really suffered for these characters. Sometimes with his books I just admire the writing because I couldn't care what happens. Not this time!
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I flipped through this book in an evening. I REALLY need to stop assuming that literary fiction is supposed to have happy and/or satisfactory endings. Heck, I would take even a lukewarm ending. Also, the book's theme made me wrongly complacent—oh, a wedding night, how nice. And once AGAIN, I find myself reading a book that perpetuates the stereotype that Brits don't know how to screw. (Or, for the ones that do know how to screw: if they do it, their whole lives become ruined as a result of it.)
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This wonderful novel is the second I have read by McEwan. It is a quick but devastating read that places you in the mind of it subjects in a way many authors struggle to do. The novel can be described as a love story that nearly everyone has experienced in their time. Brilliant. It could nearly be read in one sitting and still devastate all the same.
Dec 30, 2011
Penny (Literary Hoarders)
marked it as to-read
Going to listen to this on Audio because Elizabeth says so...off to WPL now since it's there!
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Chill out, y'all-- it's just a little spooge.
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Aug 19, 2015
Meghan
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Karen Michele Burns
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☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
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Mar 03, 2021
Ariel
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