“I really enjoy reading Ian McEwan, but, even though Saturday was a good, fast read, it was a little on the predictable side. Other than that issue with the plot, though, it was a nice examination of a mind working over time. I'm doubting that that was the intention, but the meandering time line & subject matter (telling you about the whole of the main character's life while the action was only taking place over a 24-hour period) had the effect of witnessing a brain that can never stop. A brain that's thinking about something all the time. . .since that's pretty much how mine runs it was nice to focus mine entirely on the same action of someone else's thoughts! Less exhausting to witness than to experience! I have to say, though, it was very romantic & charming to have a sequence where a killer was disarmed by a poem! (=”
stephanie wrote this review Monday, August 30, 2010.
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