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Summary: Intelligent and well-written little story
Review: Just finished Enduring Love and I enjoyed it. It is not really that suspensful or chilling, but Mr. McEwan is one writer who respects his reader's intelligence and that alone is high praise in my book with so much drivel around. I enjoyed not knowing myself whether Joe was the one who was going bananas or if in fact he was the only one who saw that Jed was really dangerous. Reminded me a bit of Bunker Man only not nearly as dark and horrific as that novel.
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Summary: Easy to read but not as gripping as its made out
Review: Some books bore you so much you can't possibly read past the first chapter, others you can't put down. This book was neither. I finished it easily withiout getting bored but the whole story line seemed a little lifeless. Several blurbs describe the book as gripping and horrific. Its nothing of the sort. An accident occurs and a man starts stalking the man character, but its all over before the main character even manages to decide the stalker is even dangerous and he is never described as so. Read this novel if you want to fill in time or find out about what im saying, but don't expect a gripping read!!!
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Summary: "Dressed Up" Thriller that's actually conventionally cheesy
Review: I expected this book to be a lot more clever and psychologically probing/provocative than it actually was. Which is why I totally misread what was going on (much to my disappointment). Without giving too much away, throughout most of the novel, I thought Parry was just a figment of the increasingly erratic and paranoid narrator's imagination. His creation of Parry stemming from his midlife career/identity crisis and fear of commitment. I kept going back and forth: Is/isn't Parry real? I thought that was fascinating and was unpleasantly surprised that it was just a mundane "Fatal Attraction" type thriller. I was truly annoyed. Don't get me wrong. It was well-written, especially the first chapter (which has already been stated many times.) But as psychologically insightful and twisty, it left a lot to be desired.
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Summary: terrifying, gripping
Review: i'd read "amsterdam" during christmas- it was a good, dark little story but nothing amazing. i'm tearing through "enduring love", about half way through and totally mesmerized. even as he finds answers i'm cringing as narrator's grip on reality erodes, and putting a diagnosis on jed's condition doesn't make it any less chilling. an excellent psychological thriller that i suspect is going to totally mess with my mind.
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Summary: Stunning
Review: I couldn't put this book down, and it still haunts me. The story is compelling and the prose is lucid and gorgeous. I've grown very bored with contemporary American fiction, so this novel, along with books by Julian Barnes and Jeanette Winterson, was a literary oasis for me.
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Summary: Compelling narrative. I was spellbound...
Review: Captured by the story's suspense, I had to force myself to set the book down following each chapter or so. Even so, I was drawn back like a magnet. I had to know the resolution and I found myself trying to figure out what the ensuing twists in the plot might be. Also, the language was intelligent, broad and exceedingly well used. This is the first McEwan tittle I've read. I look forward to many more.
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Summary: Can a loving marriage survive an impassioned stranger?
Review: Joe and Clarissa love each other deeply. In addition they both have creative and satisfying lives. But after they witness a man's death in a balloon accident, Jed Parry, another witness, blasts their lives apart with his aggressive love for Joe. The situation is one subtly different from the classical romantic scenario. Jed believes that God's will is that he should love and live with Joe in order to woo him away from his scientific atheism and arrogance. What happens when Jed's love letters and the quality of his love itself become infected with hatred makes for a terrifying and fascinating denoument based upon a true story.
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Summary: A very entertaining and highly intellectual mystery
Review: This is a major work of fiction. It is developed around an unusual medical syndrome and the story line follows a true case history. But the author is masterful in giving us an eminently readable, total engrossing mystery with a zinger of an ending.
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Summary: A powerful drama of deranged love, obsession & forgiveness
Review: This compelling novel is set in the soaring fields of Oxford, England, where the apparent organized life of Joe Rose, a free-lance Scientific writer, is shattered by a freak ballooning accident. Unknown to Rose, later he would meet Jed Parry, a man so obsessed with Joe, that it will threaten his rationalism and his relationship with girlfriend, Clarissa. As an avid follower of Ian McEwan since my days at High School in England, I am almost terrified by his accute sense of human nature and the ingenious way in which he successfully reveals how the life of an ordinary man can be driven to insanity and to the brink of murder by another's dillusions. I was mesmarized from start to finish. This has to be Ian McEwan's best novel to date.
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Summary: Joe's sense of personal failure
Review: The most interesting thought in the book for me was Joe's sense of personal failure. I share this and had not really realised it until I read the book and understood his disappointment at not being a "real" scientest. I too share his obsessive behaviour sometimes when under stress and I identified strongly with this.The best scene for me was the balloon scene - after that the rest of the book was good but not at the same intense level (rather like the beach scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" compared to the rest of the film.) One final thing that I loved was the fact that I live 10 mins drive from where the balloon scene took place and I know EXACTLY where it was supposed to have happenned. I love my home town and surrounding area and am very proud to have come from there so this was an extra treat.
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