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ASIN: 0385494149
ID #107977
Enduring Love: A Novel   (Rated: 13+)
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: Anouska Foster Author Icon
Review Rated: 13+
Amazon's Price: $ 14.83
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Summary of this Book...
I decided to read this after the film came out, and I knew about it from years ago when it was one of the set texts on an English exam. I studied the frightening 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood. I won't give you a summary as it might ruin the unfolding writing.
I especially liked...
The way it draws you in with an unapologetically complex and intelligent character driven to despair.
I thought the ending was a little bit rushed, but the appendices helped to clarify and ended it pefectly.
I didn't like...
Clarissa, I must admit, was a little bit one-dimensional but I think that has more to with the narrator Joe Rose than anything else. She did also seem quite needlessly against Joe towards the end.
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to...
Read some other Ian McEwan books.
This Book made me feel...
A little bit worried but gripped.
I recommend this Book because...
It is an exceptionally written book with a very different protagonist.
Further Comments...
The two reviewers on Amazon which rated this book zero out of five I can't fathom. One has obviously read an incident as next day when really it was a flashback to a past, more joyful, birthday. Another suggested this had a cruel view of animals in someway. I've been racking my brains to try and figure out what could've prompted this view and I have absolutely no idea. As far I can remember there's no animals in it!!!
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