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Title: A New Form of Torture!
Review: This is the first book I've read by Ian McEwan, and I absolutely hated it. Surprisingly, I did venture later to read another of his books, Amsterdam, which I enjoyed. In Atonement, the circumstances of the plot are not revealed until the middle of the book by which time the reader is totally frustrated by, for example, two-paragraph descriptions of the way the sunlight appeared on the garden lawn. I finished the book with increasing irritation only because I felt I deserved to know the ending. However, I was very disappointed. Evidently, whatever McEwan was trying to convey does not mesh with my concept of atonement.
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