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Simply excellent. Saw the film first, which I thought was good, but this far exceeds the film. Mcewan is a wonderful writer.

Currently, I am on an Ian McEwen tear. After reading Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach, I've made it my goal to read all of his writings.

The premise of this book is very interesting, and McEwen does not disappoint--much. The moment when several men converge to save a boy in a runaway hot air balloon is brilliant; however, the characters affected by the tragedy do not live up to this. McEwen never gives the reader any reason why events and people come together, which leaves a large hole that the reader cannot fill in. Additionally, the ending is anti-climatic.

While this sounds negative, I always enjoy reading McEwan's books because his writing is excellent, and his attention to the characters' thoughts are interesting.

This was a good book but the author couldve told the same story with a way less amount of words. His tendency to veer off into scientifical stuff got old fast but I just skipped those parts & the story itself was enjoyable.

On first glance, Enduring Love is something to aspire towards, right? In this pre-Atonement novel, Ian McEwan shows why this is not always the case. Joe Rose is a relatively successful science writer whose entire life changes when a failed attempt to intervene in a ballooning accident results in a casualty. One of the other rescuers develops an obsession with Joe, which ultimately disturbs all aspects of his life, especially his relationship with wife Clarissa. Part literary novel and part psychological thriller, having a science writer as a first-person narrator allows McEwan to fashion elegant science-infused turns of phrase as the nature of fear, guilt, and misunderstanding is explored through increasingly unlikely plot twists. Joe is actually a relatively likeable McEwan protagonist; my concern about his condition kept me engaged when the action dips about two-thirds of the way through. This was a good read off the list of 1001 books you must read before you die.

Like all of Ian McEwan's books, this was great. It pulls you in and you can't put it down until you see how it ends. Very interesting in that the idea for the novel came from an actual case history.