Reviews - Saturday by Ian McEwan 4th (fourth) Edition [Paperback(2006)]

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Saturday by Ian McEwan 4th (fourth) Edition [Paperback(2006)]

Ian McEwan

3.48 AVERAGE

jhaerith's review against another edition

2.0

1,5 ☆ Characters are so unlikeable and nothing interesting happens at all its just boring

tliddy1997's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

zalopunk's review against another edition

2.0

El libro es en exceso aburrido. La narración más que atrapante se me hizo odiosa y pedante a ratos. No hay problema en narrar haciendo paralelos constantes con medicina técnica o conicimientos profundos de poesía, pero hay que tener buenos metodos para hacerlo llamativo y que esto te invite a seguir leyendo, aqui no se ve eso.

Por lo demás, entre a este autor por su apodo de Ian McAbre, supuestamente un gran novelista de terror o de cosas perturbadoras en general. Y este libro tuvo todo menos cosas macabras. Al menos las ultimas 50 paginas daban para uns escena perturbante, lo suficiente como para tener unas 3,5 estrellas como cuento. Pero el resto del libro es tan insípido que no alcanza a salvar nada. Voy a darle una oportunidad más al autor con otro que si sea de sus mejores libros.

musicsaves's review against another edition

4.0

FIRST LINE REVIEW: "Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, wakes to find himself already in motion, pushing back the covers from a sitting position, and then rising to his feet." And for the next 289 pages he will walk through this one day which McEwan describes with vivid and exacting detail. This detail will drive some people bonkers, but I fell into it. I connected to Henry's walk through life and when a subtle air of menace jolts its way in...look out. I continue to be a McEwan fan.

stacy_wilson's review against another edition

4.0

If I had to choose one word to describe this book, it would be 'subtle'. It is not a roller coaster ride of a book, but more like an interesting conversation held while on a stroll in the park.

lilylanie's review against another edition

4.0

This is the third book by Ian McEwan that I've read, and I find my experience is always the same: none of the characters appeals to me very much, the subject matter is usually uncomfortable (and the excessive use of foreshadowing adds to a feeling of impending doom), and yet the way he writes leads me from page to page.

Saturday is, as you might guess, the story of a single Saturday - in this case a day in the life of a middle-aged man and his family. And nothing can be taken for granted ... an event that seems like it's going to develop into something huge fizzles into nothing, while a seemingly unimportant encounter explodes into something entirely unexpected.

Deliberately or not, McEwan teases the reader, because the most interesting characters are barely touched on, while the story's narrator is a pretty ordinary guy. There were a few pages that seemed to be heading down a path so horrific that I had to skip ahead to see how it would turn out before I could continue, but otherwise the story was a little on the unexciting side.

But the words! No single quote stands out for me after the fact, but it seemed like every thought, every passage ... whether about cooking fish or doing brain surgery or just walking down the sidewalk ... was almost poetic. Even though I don't love the subject matter McEwan chooses, I can't help reading his novels just to see how he strings words together.