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Title: Worse than Moby Dick
Review: I've slogged through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hardy, and a host of other lengthy, meandering classics, but I could not get through this.Many, many people have praised the writing in this novel. It read like a high school sophomore's stab at Very Important Writing--lots of pretentious descriptions about whatever caught a character's eye, but not much else. When the Briony character immersed herself in the fountain to get the pieces of vase that were broken in there, I had to put the book down. Had Briony ever heard of bending over and reaching into the fountain? Did this job really require a total-body immersion? This plot "development" and so much else in the book strained credibility to the breaking point.In short, Mr. McEwan seems to have confused writing copious detail with providing a substantive plot or believable characters.
