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Title: Painful beyond belief
Review: This book has so much potential. It was an interesting idea, the characters were excellent, and McEwan is an excellent writer. Why, you may ask then, did I give it only two stars? The Answer is the detail. There is WAY to much of it. The paragraphs go on and on like some kind of infernal device designed to destory my love of reading and my sanity. This book could have been about 1/3 the length without changing the plot. It's like trying to read a bad combination of "The Scarlet letter" and "Pride and Prejudice". You get the amazingly long and boring descriptions of TSL and the pointless descriptions of upper class characters that are impossible to relate to. I don't know what McEwan was trying to prove when he wrote this book, but all he proved to me is that this book is filled with pretentious [***] that only arrogent snobs with too much time on their hands can enjoy. Those of us who deal in reality will not enjoy this novel
