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Book Review of Atonement

Atonement
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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I have to agree with firefly "This book was hard to get into. The author uses so much description that the plot gets lost at first. It does pick up as the book moves along, but it is still very, very descriptive. In the end, I can see why he wrote the way he did, but that doesn't mean the book improves in my estimation." Probably one of the 20 worst books I have ever read. 76 pages to get going, then it is only mildly interesting. Overall, persistence is the only reason I got through it. Ending is predictable, but equally lame. Got into a corner and did not know how to get out, so just erased the story.