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A brilliant and capitivating opening. After Part One, however, the book becomes a bit disjointed and comes to an abrupt ending. Nevertheless, McEwan does an excellent job of setting a scene and is amazing at getting into the minds of his characters. He provides a vivid and necessarily disturbing portrait of the effects of warfare, both in the field and at home.
I'll admit that I hesitated to read this because I wasn't exactly wowed by Amsterdam, but Atonement is a masterpiece. I'm interested to see the movie, because the broad elements of the plot are actually pretty cliched - everything that is great about this book is in the subtleties of how the story is told.
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Loved the movie, bought the book. Disappointed and didn't think the book did the story justice.
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