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Ian McEwan: Saturday


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  • 2 years later...

I read this book last year for my book group, and as everyone else had read McEwan before and raved about him but friends had read him and hated his writing, I tried to approach it with an open mind. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it at all, and was thankful that at least it was quite short. I was put off at the beginning when the main character, a neurosurgeon, describes a medical procedure in technical detail, and I just found it left me cold. I couldn't engage with the characters in the novel at all, with the story of how Perowne meets his wife and the denouement of the drama were both too contrived and simply unbelievable.

 

This is definitely an author I won't be revisiting in a hurry.

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