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Originally Posted by SlowRain
I thought it was okay, but not great. I absolutely hated the upper-middle-class couple that the novel is about. I quite often enjoy flawed characters (ie. The Human Stain by Philip Roth), but I wouldn't have minded offing those two.
The story with the obsessed guy is also more motivated by McEwan's personal agenda than it is credible. It seems terribly one-sided. That particular character isn't developed very well at all. The thing is, he could have been the most interesting part of the novel if it had been done better.
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ah. but now, i kind of want to know how it ended
