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Review Date: 4/24/2010
In this novel, when Ian McEwan writes a sentence, it stays written.
Review Date: 4/16/2010
Way better than I expected.
Review Date: 2/6/2012
Helpful Score: 1
Because of "Pi," I bought this book in hardcover the day it came out. When the panning began, I moved it to the bottom of the stack. Until last month, when I decided to skim it or sell it. Then I read it in one sitting.
I found a brilliant, daring, cunningly imagined, and beautifully written novel. Not always easy, not always pretty, had to skip some searing descriptions near the end, but an absolute tour de force, with echoes of "Waiting for Godot."
If it's literature you're looking for, look no further.
I found a brilliant, daring, cunningly imagined, and beautifully written novel. Not always easy, not always pretty, had to skip some searing descriptions near the end, but an absolute tour de force, with echoes of "Waiting for Godot."
If it's literature you're looking for, look no further.
Review Date: 10/31/2012
A novel of important ideas, rendered in McEwan's impeccable prose.
Review Date: 12/1/2012
Got this for its subjects, liked it well enough, but at 335 pages, found it long for its lightness.
Review Date: 10/25/2015
What a beautiful love story! The language & structure are incandescent, the story & explication brilliant. The Classical symbols & references slightly beyond me, but available with a few Wiki searches. I loved Groff's Arcadia, and was delighted that this received such raves. Really, who needs Franzen when you can have Groff? Long may her accolades accrue. (Thanks to Riverhead & NetGalley for the review copy download to my Nook: I also bought the hardcover for me & my mother-in-law, and will be insisting on it for book group.)
Review Date: 1/15/2018
Helpful Score: 1
Really, Janet, zombies?? I always liked this series, and sold a bunch in the bookstore, but it's becoming more like that awful movie. A lot of the charm is gone, ditto the laughs, the formula is stale. Jumped the shark? Mrs. Plum is drinking more and Grandma doesn't go to any viewings without her gun. And I'm totally over the food chatter. And the snake episodes were beyond the pale. Though she caught some bail-jumpers, with the addition of Diesel, she now has 3 men alternately protecting her, worrying about her, lusting after her, feeding & housing her. Not quite so independent... though she did get some off of Ranger. Needs work.
Review Date: 1/25/2013
Love Hornby's descriptions of his reading process.
Review Date: 12/3/2020
This book is outstanding. The stories are fun and new and literary. This book made me read everything else he wrote and his newest just won the Natl. Book Award. This guy can write!
Review Date: 12/4/2014
Kept me reading in spite of myself. Well done.
Review Date: 7/19/2013
Egan is always on my "must read" list, so I went back to her first novel, not expecting much. If only all first novels were so good! Egan has a special talent for describing & defining & illustrating close relationships that are off-kilter, permanently or temporarily. Her characters' actions & emotions are coherent unto themselves. You think you might know & understand them. Dialogue spot on. Situations interesting. Filled with good stuff, not just overlong location descriptions. Wish I wrote that!
Review Date: 4/22/2013
Written by a master. Creepy both times I read it. Movie is supposed to be very faithful.
Review Date: 8/20/2011
Wow. Not his easiest, not his quickest, but the satire is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. Mostly it's a long, nasty journey with another McEwen-esque non-hero. So let's say, not exactly fun, but worth it at the end.
Review Date: 7/19/2015
Don't let this be your introduction to Haruki Murakam, worldwide renowned auther. Do let this be your introduction to Chip Kidd, worldwide renowned book designer. As a reader & former librarian, this short story disappointed & creeped me out, but so beautifully!
Review Date: 4/22/2013
Surprisingly creative, unusual stories. Well-written as usual.
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