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A Good Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Atonement | 5 | |
| Enduring Love | 2 | |
| Amsterdam | 1 | |
| Black Dogs | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 4 | |
| Enduring Love | 1 |
Ian McEwan
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I've read Atonement, Enduring Love, Amsterdam and Saturday.
I personally think that Enduring Love is the best followed by Atonement.
Although Amsterdam won the Booker I wasn't particularly impressed and that goes for Saturday too. They are good reads but not outstanding.
Heavenly October 15th, 2007 10:57 AM PST
I've read most of McEwan's books, everything except On Chesil Beach, The Child in Time, and The Innocent, I think.
My first was Enduring Love, and I think that's a great one to start with. An alternative is The Comfort of Strangers. Atonement is his chef d'oeuvre; more dense than my other two suggestions but more rewarding as well.
McEwan's early works, such as The Cement Garden and First Love, Last Rites, are extremely macabre, grotesque, and unsettling, and not as literary as his more recent offerings -- probably not a good place to start for most, though definitely worth reading if you like that kind of thing.
My least favorites are Saturday and Amsterdam. They just don't have the atmosphere and creepiness of the others.
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nickyturnill May 19th, 2007 07:41 AM PST