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Title: Less Would Be More!
Review: The plot is simple: through a series of events, 13 year Briony jumps to the erroneous conclusion that her sister's soon-to-be-boyfriend is the rapist of their young cousin. Even when she begins to doubt what she saw, she doesn't back down from her story and the young man spends several years in prison before he wins an appeal.The plot is simple but McEwan's style of writing throws so much verbiage at the reader that you are bombarded with far more information than you need. You find yourself silently screaming "Get to the story!" Instead of empathizing with any of the characters, the reader ends up feeling like he (or she) is on the outside looking in at the lives of people that you really don't care about at all.This is one of those rare books that will probably be far more enjoyable as a made-for- television movie.
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