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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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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.
I didn't like this as much as some of McEwan's work that I've read, and it left you with a lot of questions at the end, which was a little frustrating. You feel sympathetic towards both characters, but there is a lot about Florence that you never really discover, made more obvious by the fact that we don't see how the rest of her life pans out, only from a distance.
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Dec 30, 2011
Penny (Literary Hoarders)
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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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Jul 22, 2012
Valerie Zink
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☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
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Ariel
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