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On Chesil Beach
by Ian Mcewan
from Anchor

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• On Boring Beach
  The premise of the book is nice....a young couple and the struggle to consumate their marriage on their wedding night. Only it falls very short.
  It's boring, and lacks a lot of character build. It seems like the wedding is only about the consumation, and not because these two people want to be together. Well, it sorta is....there is not enough here to fill up a book, and it's a half hearted attempt. Ian McEwan can, and has done better. This book was a quick read, but was boring, and was not... more info

• Jeweler's Eye
  With meticulous precision, Ian McEwan examines the wedding night of an innocent couple, who marry in 1962 and spend their first night alone together at a hotel on Chesil Beach. In always elegant prose, McEwan displays his great gift for describing the particular and making it universal. In this case, he turns his jeweler's eye on the misunderstandings between a young man and young woman, deeply in love and deeply inhibited. Recommended for anyone who has ever loved or hoped to love.

• Anticlimactic
  
  This book would have made a good short story. The plot was too weak
  and too drawn out for a full length novel. I was disappointed in this
  book.

• Don't Let Your Hubris Be Your Hamartia
  This book says: Your life can change in one moment. One bad decision, one hour of inflated pride or of deflated self-confidence, and your way may be lost, your course derailed, and you may not be smart enough or brave enough to fix it when you should.
  This book is poetic, brief, heart-wrenching. You will read it overnight.
  McEwan's seamless movement through time - taking you from Point A (a second-by-millisecond play-by-play of the couples first and foiled attempt at making love) to Point B (a... more info

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