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 On Boring Beach, November 24, 2008 |
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The premise of the book is nice....a young couple and the struggle to consumate their marriage on their wedding night. Only it falls very short.
It's boring, and lacks a lot of character build. It seems like the wedding is only about the consumation, and not because these two people want to be together. Well, it sorta is....there is not enough here to fill up a book, and it's a half hearted attempt. Ian McEwan can, and has done better. This book was a quick read, but was boring, and was not remarkable in any way. There was nothing special about this book or the story. The only thing that makes it readable is that Ian McEwan is atleast a good writer, his style is good, so it was not completely awful to read. I feel like he spit this one out though, as I kept waiting for something to happen and it never did. I've read worse,but I've read a lot better too. |
 Jeweler's Eye, November 19, 2008 |
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With meticulous precision, Ian McEwan examines the wedding night of an innocent couple, who marry in 1962 and spend their first night alone together at a hotel on Chesil Beach. In always elegant prose, McEwan displays his great gift for describing the particular and making it universal. In this case, he turns his jeweler's eye on the misunderstandings between a young man and young woman, deeply in love and deeply inhibited. Recommended for anyone who has ever loved or hoped to love. |
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Anticlimactic, November 16, 2008 |
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This book would have made a good short story. The plot was too weak and too drawn out for a full length novel. I was disappointed in this book. |
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Don't Let Your Hubris Be Your Hamartia, November 10, 2008 |
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This book says: Your life can change in one moment. One bad decision, one hour of inflated pride or of deflated self-confidence, and your way may be lost, your course derailed, and you may not be smart enough or brave enough to fix it when you should.
This book is poetic, brief, heart-wrenching. You will read it overnight. McEwan's seamless movement through time - taking you from Point A (a second-by-millisecond play-by-play of the couples first and foiled attempt at making love) to Point B (a condensed reflection on the monotony of their regular and separate lives, two decades later) - accentuates the way memories of some painful, scary, awkward, unprecedented seconds (spent trying to navigate romance, sex, and love) last a lifetime, while the memories of the years between such episodes (spent naviating the more predictable terrain of career changes, aging, and self-improvement) blur together and dissolve, lose their shape and form, are boiled down into resumes instead of love letters. This book says: Don't let pride, fear, or practicality ruin your shot at true love. Just. Don't. Do. It. |
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True to Ian McEwan's form...a beautiful story, November 10, 2008 |
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I finished this beautiful story in one afternoon. I have read several of Ian McEwan's books and have loved every single one. He has this uncanny knack of drawing you into every agonizing situation, causing you to feel exactly what the character is feeling. Much like Atonement, the last few pages make your stomach turn and a lump gather in your throat. Ian McEwan is writing genius personified, proven again in this wonderful novel. |
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