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Title: Painful
Review: This book came highly recommended, so I was excited to read it. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. While it is obvious that McEwan is a creative and artistic writer, his book does nothing to hold one's interest. Pages of unnecessary description and little action make "Atonement" a painfully slow read. Fortunately, things pick up a bit in parts II, III and IV (191 pages into the book), but not enough to make reading it worth it.
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