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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
medium-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
Was quite engaged with this book although the author does get into more detail than is probably necessary. Enjoyed it.
I didn't get into the book until about half way through.
Popsugar reading challenge: a book that takes place over the course of 24 hours.
Popsugar reading challenge: a book that takes place over the course of 24 hours.
possibly one of the most boring books i've ever attempted to read/listen to?? made worse because it's also entirely unimportant but it seems to think it's important??
stuck it out as long as I did because I like Ian McEwan so much (for the most, part apparently) but this was a big miss for me. I could finish it or I could swap to one of the many many books on my TBR i'm excited about...
stuck it out as long as I did because I like Ian McEwan so much (for the most, part apparently) but this was a big miss for me. I could finish it or I could swap to one of the many many books on my TBR i'm excited about...
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
had to read this for a class and absolutely hated it. i couldn’t stand the protagonist, i found it dragged the whole way through, and i had a miserable time reading it. even in the audio book format on 2x speed i struggled to crawl my way through this book. i hope no soul is ever subjected to having to read this unless possessed by some devilish urge or desire for masochism.
I ended up loving this book so much even though I had a bit of trouble starting it. I appreciated the details that go into the characters lives, and I actually felt like I learned a lot from this one.
For future self: this is the one where the neurosurgeon sees a plane crash in the morning, goes to play squash and then gets into a car accident with thugs, the thug is stopped from beating him up by him pointing out that he has a neurological disorder, then going on with his day. Visits his mother, sees his son's blues band practice, goes to the fish monger, goes home, then other things happen, his wife, then his father in law, the poet, then the writer-daughter comes home and the family is attacked and it's the thug! He makes the daughter strip in the living room and recite poetry and everyone learns she is pregnant. Then somehow the thug and the surgeon go upstairs and then the thug is attacked by the son, falls down the stairs and has to go to hospital because he hits his head and cracks it up real bad. GUESS WHO THE NEUROSURGEON ON CALL IS!
For future self: this is the one where the neurosurgeon sees a plane crash in the morning, goes to play squash and then gets into a car accident with thugs, the thug is stopped from beating him up by him pointing out that he has a neurological disorder, then going on with his day. Visits his mother, sees his son's blues band practice, goes to the fish monger, goes home, then other things happen, his wife, then his father in law, the poet, then the writer-daughter comes home and the family is attacked and it's the thug! He makes the daughter strip in the living room and recite poetry and everyone learns she is pregnant. Then somehow the thug and the surgeon go upstairs and then the thug is attacked by the son, falls down the stairs and has to go to hospital because he hits his head and cracks it up real bad. GUESS WHO THE NEUROSURGEON ON CALL IS!
Read this because it's a set text on my English Lit course.
Not as enjoyable as Enduring Love or as deviant and weird as his earlier books (eg The Cement Garden). Very conservative and trying perhaps a bit too hard to apply the Woolf/Proust/Joyce style of literary modernism to 2003. I got the impression that this was a novel by someone who knows full well it will automatically by published and scrutinised by literary journals.
I could have done without all the details of the squash match & brain surgery, and what story there is felt a bit unlikely: violent gangsters being defeated first by a diagnosis of a brain condition, then later by the reciting of 19th century poetry. I think pepper spray might be better in real life.
I can only really recommend it for squash-loving brain surgeons.
Not as enjoyable as Enduring Love or as deviant and weird as his earlier books (eg The Cement Garden). Very conservative and trying perhaps a bit too hard to apply the Woolf/Proust/Joyce style of literary modernism to 2003. I got the impression that this was a novel by someone who knows full well it will automatically by published and scrutinised by literary journals.
I could have done without all the details of the squash match & brain surgery, and what story there is felt a bit unlikely: violent gangsters being defeated first by a diagnosis of a brain condition, then later by the reciting of 19th century poetry. I think pepper spray might be better in real life.
I can only really recommend it for squash-loving brain surgeons.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes