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The Innocent by Ian McEwan
1.0
I hate this book. Unfortunately, I was forced to read it for school, so stopping after the first two chapters wasn't an option.
The Cold War is a very interesting topic, but this book is merely set in it, so it didn't give me any new and interesting information about how it was to live during that period. All it said was "the USA hates Russia, Russia hates the USA, the USA only works with the British because of political reasons" and so on. (Where's France in all of this, by they way?) The whole tunnel thing didn't mean a thing to me.
The relationship between Marnham and Maria is pathetic. I mean, are the explicit and disgusting sex scenes supposed to mean something?
Overall, the pace was too slow and the plot was horribly boring, until Maria's ex-husband, Otto, finally came to save some of it.
There seems to be a great number of people who like this kind of stories, and that's good. I'm just not one of them, sorry.
The Cold War is a very interesting topic, but this book is merely set in it, so it didn't give me any new and interesting information about how it was to live during that period. All it said was "the USA hates Russia, Russia hates the USA, the USA only works with the British because of political reasons" and so on. (Where's France in all of this, by they way?) The whole tunnel thing didn't mean a thing to me.
The relationship between Marnham and Maria is pathetic. I mean, are the explicit and disgusting sex scenes supposed to mean something?
Overall, the pace was too slow and the plot was horribly boring, until Maria's ex-husband, Otto, finally came to save some of it.
Spoiler
His death wasn't that much of a surprise, but the hole in his face definitely was. I also wasn't surprised when they cut him up and put him in the cases. While I hated the details in the sex scenes, I oddly appreciated how the author described how they cut the corpse in pieces.There seems to be a great number of people who like this kind of stories, and that's good. I'm just not one of them, sorry.