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Post by nomatchcheck on Mar 31, 2004 14:50:24 GMT -5
Though I heard about the author a couple of years ago and I (accidentally) bought 'Atonement' just after it was published in Poland, somehow I didn't feel like getting ito it. The blurb was definitely discouraging, it all looked like another boring stuff. This taught me a lesson, that you never know what pearls you can find in your own library if you finally happen to browse through stuff bought long time ago, never read and forgotten;) I do recommend this author, he's great pleasure to read, a big suprise, I like the story, the style, the composition of the novel.
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Post by Bartwald on Mar 31, 2004 15:30:03 GMT -5
Haven't read Atonement but...
...finally a brave one to dare enter the Books And Stuff section! Bravo!
Talking Ian McEwan - I've only read his Comfort Of Strangers some time ago (there was also a movie based on it - starring Christopher Walken), and was rather disappointed with it; it started in an interesting way, very creepily, but then degenerated into something much more common and predictable.
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Post by nomatchcheck on Apr 2, 2004 17:43:14 GMT -5
ok, I was disappointed by Comfort Of Strangers, too, but, perhaps because it was quite short and simple (as one of his earliest works) and I had just read a far more complicated Atonement;) Though I lacked some extensive description of the setting (venice) I did enjoy following the thoughts of the main characters. I would not agree that it was predictable  the way the story developed was for me totally unjustified, no foreshadowing, it promised to be rather a romance than a thriller. Or maybe it because I'm absolutely not well-read in thrillers;) |
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Post by Bartwald on Apr 3, 2004 1:02:03 GMT -5
Yes, Comfort was so short that I couldn't believe when it was all over - just 102 pages! Hey - in Stephen King's terms it wouldn't even be a novella as many of his short stories tend to be longer than that!
Oh, and by 'more predictable ending' I meant that the start was a set of weird surprises leading you every time to a different place than you could expect to get to. The nearer the end the less strange the things got for me, and that's why the disappointment.
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the way the story developed was for me totally unjustified, no foreshadowing, it promised to be rather a romance than a thriller. Or maybe it because I'm absolutely not well-read in thrillers;)