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After it turns out that Jed is a real threat, Clarissa spuns out a turn and accuses Joe of not talking to her, not wanting her help? I mean didn't she just rejected his fears as irrational and even delirious? She found out that Joe oh gawd was looking through her desk because he suspected that she was seeing someone else, and tells him that it was the last straw and she's leaving. Then she and Joe make love?!?!? When Joe takes matters into his hands she leaves. All this is ornamented with the figure of maniacal Jed, who sends Joe letters that are supposed to be the evidence of his love, but only serve as unintentional hilarity.
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I was expecting a giant half-squirrel, half-cock to jump into the story anytime. At the end there's a 5 page appendix describing the de Clerambault's syndrome from which Jed suffers. There's also a letter he sends from an Asylum that shows that he's still sick. Joe and Clarissa reconcile and I do hope he drives a stake banded with barbed wire straight through her anus. It might make her ealize what a pain in the butt she was.
There's no point to this story altogether. Pretentious, pseudo intelectual, filled with superfluous science that's supposed to look smart but is only tedious. With On Chesil Beach you slapped me across the face; with Enduring Love you delivered a round-house kick straight to the nuts. Your luck they don't hit guys in glasses. But I warn you, McEwan.
View all 44 comments. Apr 03, Wen rated it liked it. During this stressful work week I was looking for a quick escape from one of my favorite authors, with much anticipation, but ended with a disappointment. Scientific writer Joe rose met Jed parry during a heroic group act to rescue a year-old boy during an air balloon accident, and unfortunately the uncoordinated act led to the death of one of the rescuers. Jed became obsessed with his unrequited love for already guilt- During this stressful work week I was looking for a quick escape from one of my favorite authors, with much anticipation, but ended with a disappointment.
Jed became obsessed with his unrequited love for already guilt-stricken Joe, and started stalking and threatening him. Did Joe choose to do so? The answer was both yes and no This psychological thriller kicked off with a bang, but was half-baked after, and fell flat at the ending. The moral of the story was the fragility of love between couples having had long shared affection and loyalty.
They were great match for intellectually-stimulating discussions. The easily paranoid Joe was far from being a rock for Clarissa. Hence it was no surprise that both failed to hold down the balloon so to speak. With the lack of children always lurking in the shadow, the happy ending suggested by Appendix 1 would have been very unrealistic. That said, the book's focus on Joe may have left me with superficial and unfair understanding of Clarissa. Some details appeared unnecessary, like Joe paging through his address book and the purchase of the gun.
Maybe I was missing something. In this book, I felt the verboseness masked his typical prose, yet some brilliant sentences were hard to miss. Music was only mentioned once in passing. This book recalibrated my expectation… not a bad development because I believe I have already read most of his best novels. View all 7 comments. Agia e via-me a agir. Um filme foi realizado com base no livro. Jul 14, Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing.
Read it years ago!!! One of my favorites!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sep 15, Fabian rated it really liked it. The premise is incredible, too many coincidences create a rift in an otherwise stagnant life: That all these occurrences happen at once is almost a literary impossibility.
You must know what happens next, and at all costs, and ignoring your outside life will become a necessity. It is bizarre, ugly in the clinical definition of the word. I love the fact that the central problem in the book is the surplus of love. Are all emotions really just teensy chemical reactions within a susceptible organism?
Saturday, On Chesil Beach… I'm not a huge fan of this brand of bleakness. Atonement barely has that conceited, I-know-everything-even-the-biological-processes-which-govern-the-universe-entire narrative voice… which is why it's his Sole Masterpiece. At least he refrained from using footnotes! Alas, American Paul Auster already has. Nov 20, Shovelmonkey1 rated it liked it Recommends it for: Here are some Ian McEwan statistics based on my own reading habits: He's written 19 books so far and I've read seven of them which is representative of Man falls to death from runaway hot air balloon How do you come up with that one?
Surely as statistically unlikely as man gored to death by very pointy carrot or man squashed by falling chunk of space junk? I did the statistics for the books but I'm not capable of working out the statistical probability of any of the above statements so I won't. So Joe and Jed meet. Is it love at first sight? Yes but only for one party and the other party is at first blissfully unaware.
As admiration and love spiral, ever decreasing circles style, into a tight little ball of obsession we get to follow the two characters who both perceive events in very different ways. None of the characters are particularly loveable or sympathetic to each other, or each others point of view. Mostly you'll find yourself cheering for the underdog. For the discerning film buff, this was also turned into a movie featuring Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans.
I can't really recommend the film aside from the bit where Daniel Craig gets out of a swimming pool in small pants.
View all 13 comments. Feb 23, Sara rated it it was ok Shelves: Can this author really be the same man who wrote Atonement? I have now read enough of his books to know there is a range from horrid to sublime and a bit of everything in between, and this one is the in between. I hated the first half and almost tossed it in. There is something at the heart of this book that repelled me.
Perhaps it was the treatment of God and faith. I have two other McEwan books sitting on my library bookshelves.
I think they will go with me on my next trip to the used book store and I can lighten my TBR by two books. I am so glad I started with Atonement, because had I read these others first, I would never have gotten there. View all 4 comments. Feb 11, Rebecca rated it really liked it Shelves: Interesting to consider this as a precursor to Saturday: Freelance science journalist Joe Rose — on a picnic with his partner, Keats scholar Clarissa, at the time — was one of those who rushed to help, as was Jed Parry, a young Christian z Interesting to consider this as a precursor to Saturday: Freelance science journalist Joe Rose — on a picnic with his partner, Keats scholar Clarissa, at the time — was one of those who rushed to help, as was Jed Parry, a young Christian zealot who fixates on Joe.
He seems to think that by loving Joe, a committed atheist, he can bring him to God. I feel it too. This is the uniquely articulated story of what unfolds after a tragic hot-air balloon accident, during which a man is killed. It starts with one moment, one look. I found this to be an interesting, layered, and compelling read. Bordering on thrilling, but for the more intricate language and thought processes involved throughout… not easy or fast enough to be a thriller. During the telling of the story, there are brief but regular forays into scientific and philosophical subjects which are of interest to the main character.
I am finding a solid appreciation for the indirect way in which this author conveys his story.
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View all 22 comments. Un altro McEwan doc. Pensieri, studi Un altro McEwan doc. View all 10 comments. Feb 07, Betsy Robinson rated it really liked it. Joe Rose, a science writer, has a traumatic experience, and then is stalked. Enduring Love is my ninth Ian McEwan book and I now have a sense that I can group his work by certain characteristics. Thi Joe Rose, a science writer, has a traumatic experience, and then is stalked. In some ways, I suppose these books are more commercial than the ones that ride on even more nuanced undercurrents of denied, sublimated, and repressed human feeling although, to be honest, all of his books contain these , but I actually prefer the subtler books Saturday , The Children Act , On Chesil Beach.
Atonement straddles both categories, and Nutshell hilarious and The Cement Garden first novel occupy their own categories. But honestly, why quibble and categorize? I will read anything this man writes. There was another thing too, like a skin, a soft shell around the meat of my anger, limiting it and so making it appear all the more theatrical. What I had thought was an expression was actually his face at rest. I had been misled by the curl of his upper lip, which some genetic hiatus had boiled into a snarl.
This is writing I feel in my teeth—as if they are sinking into the meat he references—and my mouth waters. View all 11 comments. Sep 28, Will rated it really liked it Shelves: Another brilliantly-written work that springs from a single defining event. Joe had been picnicking with his partner Clarissa when they see a man attempting to hold a balloon down to free a child trapped inside. Joe and five others run to help but through an unfortunate set of actions, one falls to his death. Thus two men meet: Jed is a lonely religious fundamenta Another brilliantly-written work that springs from a single defining event.
Jed is a lonely religious fundamentalist who falls obsessively in love with Joe, hounding and pestering him to return his love, yet maintains that Joe initiated the whole thing. At first I thought that that McEwan-esquely-named disorder and its symptoms must surely have been invented by the man himself, but no, it is a real illness; though McEwan does cleverly present the entire story of Enduring Love as the basis for a psychiatric case history in an appendix.
That in itself is brilliant: It is so convincing that it apparently fooled both physicians and book critics - one complaining that Enduring Love was a too-literal interpretation of a real case. See this Guardian article for more. Back to the story. But how much is Joe the cause and how much the victim of the unfolding drama? There is a lot more going on — there is an important parallel story involving the widow of the man who was killed in the accident, which provides Joe with a mystery to solve — and the overall pace and tension is great; I found it hard to put down, although strangely it was not a fast read.
Actually some elements were a little far-fetched I mean, really, if you were struggling to keep a balloon on the ground, would you notice how many doors were open on a car parked some distance away? But at least two of them supposedly did. And I thought the story did become a bit strained towards the end view spoiler [with Joe discovering that de Clerambault sufferers can become violent, just before that did actually happen, and immediately deciding he needed to get a gun for protection just as he discovered that Jed was holding Clarissa hostage hide spoiler ].
View all 3 comments. Ugh, I hate giving such a low rating to a book by McEwan because he writes such beautiful prose, but the plot was such a letdown I also cannot justify giving it a higher one. McEwan's writing is beautiful, there is no doubt about that. This book also explores some interesting ideas about love, trust, faith and reason. However, as interesting as the plot's premise is I cannot Ugh, I hate giving such a low rating to a book by McEwan because he writes such beautiful prose, but the plot was such a letdown I also cannot justify giving it a higher one.
I cannot believe the novel took that long for the plot to come to its conclusion - the element of suspense is at first intriguing, but later simply becomes frustrating. Again, what an utter disappointment. The characters also lack a certain depth, and their motivations are not entirely believable. There is no subtlety , and subtlety is key to manipulating the emotions of the reader. McEwan would have do better to write a non-fiction science book than to put his thoughts this way into a novel.
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As a fiction reader who was led on to think this was a thriller, I could not have been more wrong, and more angry. Aug 15, C. I've gone off Ian McEwan lately, for reasons I'm not particularly proud of. In short, I've started hanging with a 'better' or, for political correctness, 'different' literary crowd, and now McEwan seems to me to be the province of the armchair literati, the people who like to read the Booker Prize winners, the people who are content to read pretty, sophisticated prose that looks nice but means nothing.
Yes, I did that too, for a while, but the difference was that I was sixteen at the time, and I've gone off Ian McEwan lately, for reasons I'm not particularly proud of. Yes, I did that too, for a while, but the difference was that I was sixteen at the time, and now I'm reading Cervantes and McEwan can't exactly compete. Nonetheless, it's dreadfully unfair of me to say this, really. Who am I to judge? So I read this book carefully, trying to see if my latest beliefs about McEwan were correct or not. And I was a bit sceptical: I noticed a lot of things from Saturday reappearing, the things I've come to think of as McEwan tropes: What McEwan likes to do, I think, is choose an interesting situation, put his characters in it and then see what happens, preferably using as many of the features I listed above.
But this time is impressively convoluted, even for him: This love proceeds to destroy the marriage of its victim, but really what the book is about is the conflict between a way of thinking based on logical scientific reasoning and one based on emotions. But here I come to my evidence.
You see, I like to think I'm more than just an average nobody typing nonsense for a book-themed social networking site; I, I tell myself, am a scientist, and more importantly, I am an intelligent human being. This means that if I make a claim, I try to back it up it with evidence, with some sort of example that supports what I'm saying. You see, McEwan sets up this conflict between science and literature quite nicely, in my opinion , but then essentially abandons it, leaving it to curl up in a little whimpering heap and die.
In a quintessentially McEwan way, he suggests interesting things but offers no opinion on them, no discussion, no give-and-take of ideas. This, I believe, gives his books the outward appearance of being clever and interesting, erudite even, but, I claim, they are not. They are Jodi Picoult, but a notch or two higher - or is that too harsh?
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And really, that's ok. Cervantes it is not, but I enjoyed this book. McEwan does write about interesting things, and that is much better than nothing. I always enjoy his sophisticated prose though I think Saturday is better in that respect , and this book in particular was a real page-turner, in a restrained and fairly non-trashy way, with elements of real horror. View all 20 comments. Ok, this is my 4th book by Mr. McEwen and was very satisfied with this book. I was hooked from the beginning and was bent over the book a lot when reading just anticipating what was going to happen next.
You wondered who was the crazy one in the story and at the end you found out. There was forgiveness and happiness in the end but you have a thought of will it stay that way. I have read Atonement, Amsterdam, and Black Dogs by this author. The author is very good at keeping you thinking about what Ok, this is my 4th book by Mr. The author is very good at keeping you thinking about what comes next in the story line.
I I really enjoyed this one! I read a lot of books by this author. I like his writing. Some of them are very good and some IMO are not so good. This one I really enjoyed. Not exactly for the subject of the story but for the way it was told. I could not stop reading this book. I finished it very quickly. The story was told by the main character and I could not stop reading it. I really felt that "Atonement" was this author most outstanding book but I will continue to read him because when I find another book this good it's a I read a lot of books by this author.
I really felt that "Atonement" was this author most outstanding book but I will continue to read him because when I find another book this good it's always a pleasant surprise. I don't know about this book. On one hand, when all is said and done the narrative feels simply like an intricately-written case study, though occasionally punctuated with inconsistently glorious descriptions, for an odd psychological disorder that even with all of Ian McEwan's brilliance is still only mildly interesting.
On the other hand, it's McEwan's wonderful writing combined with a first-person perspective, which gives us the rare treat of a character reflecting introspectively using all of I don't know about this book. On the other hand, it's McEwan's wonderful writing combined with a first-person perspective, which gives us the rare treat of a character reflecting introspectively using all of McEwan's power with words. Now and again I was reminded of Paul Auster - the hints at future calamities and complications prior to their being actually narrated, the ambiguity as to whether events are real or imagined, the questioning of the protagonist's sanity.
Like Auster but so much better , McEwan has a special talent for turning order into disorder. Strangely, in this book things return to some degree of order at the end; I'm used to there being no loose ends at the end of a McEwan novel, but usually it's because everyone's dead or something.
I hate to imply that the ending was too happy just because it wasn't completely hopelessly tragic; it was more that it seemed plucked from thin air. The prose here is so vivid, it adds layers of complexity and introspection to an otherwise so-so plot. The opening chapter itself is worthy of 5 stars - I felt like I was actually witnessing the accident in real time, that the desperation, helplessness, horror, and guilt outlined on those pages were mine alone. Enduring Love has a simple but fascinating premise, which I was at least halfway familiar with before beginning the book I think there's been a film version, which I haven't actually seen, but remember reading about whenever it came out.
Joe Rose, a scientific journalist, is about to enjoy a reunion picnic with his girlfriend Clarissa when he witnesses an accident involving a hot-air balloon; he and a small group of strangers rush to help, but the incident results in a man's death. During thes Enduring Love has a simple but fascinating premise, which I was at least halfway familiar with before beginning the book I think there's been a film version, which I haven't actually seen, but remember reading about whenever it came out. During these events, one of the group, Jed Parry, catches Joe's eye and thereafter develops an obsession with him.
As the story progresses, Parry's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing and Joe finds his relationship with Clarissa disintegrating, leading to an inevitably dramatic climax. At first I thought this was a fairly straightforward tale rational man is harrassed by religious fanatic, relationship suffers but to my delight, it became much more than that.
Joe is a complicated character - obsessed by the rationality of science, he is nevertheless completely inept in the way he handles both Parry's behaviour and the problems in his relationship with Clarissa. In the first few chapters, his ruminations on matters scientific irritated and bored me, but later I began to understand that they are essential in establishing the basics of his character, the rationality that leads him to deal with his stalker in entirely the wrong way, only making matters worse.
Parry's obsession, meanwhile, begins to reflect Joe's single-minded determination that he can restore Clarissa's love for him to its former state, creating a fascinating parallel between the two men - is Parry's love only categorised as madness because it has never been returned; does love require reciprocation to be validated as a normal mental state? However, I couldn't help thinking it was all just too slight. Joe and Clarissa's relationship, Parry's obsessive behaviour, Joe's struggle to be taken seriously by Clarissa and the police - all would have benefited from further exploration, and the book could easily have been twice its actual length and still just as compelling.
The opening of the book is incredibly effective - the reader is plunged straight into the action of the balloon incident - but because this is the first time Joe and Clarissa appear, and the problems between them start very soon afterwards, I found it difficult to get a handle on them as a couple deeply in love and happy particularly as we only see Joe's viewpoint. I LOVED the element of uncertainty, the narrative's implication - as well as Clarissa's obvious suspicion - that Parry is actully a figment of Joe's imagination, some expression of post-traumatic stress, but again, this was resolved too quickly.
Additionally, I didn't see much point in the sub-plot involving the balloon accident victim's family, which only made me want to jump back to the main narrative. Aug 06, Paul E. Essentially, this is the story of how things go from slightly awkward to life-threatening. This was a re-read for me, spurred by seeing a very cheap copy of the audiobook.
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