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Atonement | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Mcewan
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 775
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0099507382
EAN: 9780099507383
ASIN: 0099507382
Publication Date: August 9, 2007
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 Read before watching film! August 25, 2008
Elizabeth (Derbyshire, England)
Atonement is, overall, quite a good read.
However, it is very much an up-hill battle to really get into it, though once you are in, it engrosses you for around 60% of the time, so in this way is good.
There are several parts throughout the book that I personally had to skip, as they were very slow-moving and irrelevant to the story.
If you have seen the film, the book is even more hard work, as it takes so much time to get round to what actually happens in the story, so if you read it after having seen the film - good luck!
 Mastery of the written word certainly... August 21, 2008
UK reader (Nr Manchester, UK)
I don't know where to begin with this review. I have just finished reading Atonement and the last chapter and epilogue were really gripping and unputdownable. But earlier in the novel - the section covering Robbie's time at war - didn't really do it for me. I am not that fond of stories about war, and whilst I appreciate the mastery in the writing and the descriptions, I wasn't as moved as some.
I really like the scene in the library - that was very sensual and I was totally caught up in the moment. The first section of the novel was I felt a little rambling. Lots of 'big' words and flowing sentences which occassionally drove me to distraction - again I appreciated the mastery of the writing but it wasn't an especially easy novel to read on a train, full of distractions and noise! I did enjoy it all the same but I think I think I should've immersed myself in a library to be able to truely concentrate!
The crime - well there were more than one - but Briony's over-imagination was the focus of the novel. Even at the end her imagination got the better of her but I am glad it was explained but as I read the epilogue and the characters attending the party I did wonder what had happened.
I have struggled to give a star rating and have plumped for 4 stars because of the middle section I wasn't so fond of.
I haven't read McEwan before but have bought a couple of others - Saturday, On Cheshil Beach - to see what I think of him as an author. I was bought Atonement as a Christmas present last year and thought I ought to give it a read and am glad I did, despite some of my reservations.
I was umming and ahhing about whether to watch the film but I think it would just spoil the pictures I have in my head of the characters. Sorry - in my interpretation Keira Knightley doesn't feature!
Brillant story, but rubbishly made August 6, 2008
Book Lover (London, England)
I brought this book and it was brillant. The story is brillant and I liked the way that it had different sexctions focusing on certain events. Anyway, the book did not last long and started to fall to pieces when I had only read a third of it.
 Story through a Prism July 31, 2008
M. J. Saxton (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a massively enjoyable book, but it also reminded me of studying English at university,which I suppose is part of the point.
In structure it is reminiscent of the Virginia Woolf style to which it makes reference. The three differing viewpoints and overlapping of time can be either revealing or frustrating, depending on where you are in the narrative.
The novel hooks into the current popularity of fiction about WWII, which the British pick away at like a scab - nonetheless satisfying for all that. The times and experiences within the novel are conjured well so that the reader sinks comfortably into the surroundings.
A book of fascinating perspectives.
 atonement - disapponting to the end July 27, 2008
bob (Oslo)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was hugely disappointing. It is NOT "smouldering with slow-burning menace". It rambles on and on, prattling endlessly, and trying to save the whole thing at the end, as being the manuscript of that annoying little brat now doddering old fool.
The basic story is simple enough, and this story could have been effectively told in a hundred pages. 372 is a major waste of paper, space and my patience.
The figures are flat and two-dimentional, the language pretentious and the aim way over the authors' abillities, it seems.
There is a real possibillity that the film will be ok, simply because the book was awful.
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