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Author Ian McEwen performs a lot of weaving in his writing. He does this on many levels, from a character's individual memory, to particular stories that return on the sly many pages later, to larger events that return in new sections. Even though suspicious of who did the crime, we finally learn the truth of this whodunit at the end, allowing for us to be outfoxed into a game with the author, the game of truth and falsity. McEwen traps us into the web-game so that we have to ask ourselves, once
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Lots of hype about this book when it first came out. I did not care for the story or the author's style.
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This book has done something amazing for me, as a reader, because I felt genuinely uncomfortable reading it and had to force myself to finish. I have been both bored and disgusted by books before, but never one that at first glance seemed so harmless. I don't know if it was the awkward writing style of some portions of the novel, or the vilification of nearly every character, but it most certainly was a rough read for me. After having heard so many positive reviews on the book, I'm feeling a bit
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It was dull.
I really enjoyed the story but I felt that Ian McEwan went a little overboard with descriptions. While I enjoyed the good parts immensely, certain parts were torture to get through because they just seemed to go on forever!
This is the first of his books that I have read but it won't be the last. I really enjoyed his prose and the settings and characters felt so real.
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