buttercup

It makes me really very sad to say this: I could not finish Atonement. McEwan's writing is great, don't misunderstand me — I just couldn't let myself go down low enough to actually get to the end of the book. I don't want to be all spoiling anyone else's fun here, so I'll just say this: the turning point of the book, everything that happened after it . . . I just couldn't stand to see it happen. I guess that's good on McEwan, that the reader can become that involved in the characters, but good god, I just couldn't take it. Pre-Christmas is kind of depressing around here anyway, which may have had something to do with it. I don't think this one is a complete write-off — it's written so well that I know I'll want to finish it some time — but it's going to be a while before I go back to it.