Enduring Love - Ian McEwan Reviews

Enduring Love * Being an English As student , and having to study Enduring Love in detail I thought it would be a good idea to WRITE a review about it because I am so familiar with the book. I also decided to write this review as I have my english exams in a couple of days and one of the exams is based on writing something like a review , and ...  Read the complete review

Joe Rose is a science journalist, in a long term relationship with Clarissa who is coming back from the US that fateful day when the story of 'Enduring Love' begins. Their welcome countryside picnic goes awry when Joe becomes involved in a ballooning accident in which one of the rescuers is killed. So we already have the set-up, when ...  Read the complete review

Joe Rose and Clarissa Melon have been in a relationship for 7yrs and one day as Joe is picking Clarissa from the airport , a chance encounter with a ballooning accident changes their relationship. The accident runs the story inot three storylines, each involving people affected by the accidet. Jed Parry is one of the people who coincidentally ...  Read the complete review

I'll admit that I had high expectations of this. Two of my friends loved it. I kept reading reviews describing it as a modern classic. Which means that, now that I've finished it, I can't help but think that there's either something wrong with the rest of the world, or with me. And because ...  Read the complete review

What is a rhetorical question? It’s a question to which the answer is self-evident, obvious, clear. An example? Have you read all the books standing on your bookshelves? Another one: have you bought new books nevertheless? I’d like to propose to change the cat ‘Where do you buy your books?’ into ‘Where do ...  Read the complete review

An Ian McEwan fanatic recommended Enduring Love as one of his best creations. I haven’t read any other books of his but I wasn’t very impressed with this one! Admittedly there are some very exciting passages in the book, particularly the opening section – so thrilling that you become engrossed in seconds. There is also a ...  Read the complete review

Ian McEwan is the author of many books and short stories. The book that most people will know him from is the controversial novel ?The Cement Garden?. In addition to this he has also written a number of film scripts. Enduring Love was published in 1997. It starts with one of the best opening chapters I have ever read. I am not alone in ...  Read the complete review

I picked up ‘Enduring Love’ having intended for a while to read one of McEwan’s books. I had fairly high expectations. I have heard McEwan’s writing commended often, and the back of the Vintage edition is covered with words of fulsome praise. I’m happy to say I wasn’t disappointed. The story is that of ...  Read the complete review

This book has everything,from love to action to comedy. McEwan evidently has a strange imagination but this novel is definately engrossing. McEwan manages to create suspense from the moment you pick up the book, to the second that you put it down. The reader follows the character of a middle class scientist called Joe as he tries to recover after ...  Read the complete review

The basic plot is one very scientifically minded man with his very opposite arts and literature minded wife have their life’s upturned by a series of traumatic events. The husband (Joe) begins an unknowing mental affair with his unwanted stalker, and the hypocrisy, plots, and morals unwind in true McEwan fashion. (I hate doing the plot bit!) ...  Read the complete review

Enduring love has one of the most brilliantly written openming chapters of any book that In hyave ever read, the mageasterial sweep and sharp characteristaion launch this book with a bang. It was an utter travesty that this sensational book didn't win the booker prize. The story concerns a science writer who ends up being stalked by a young ...  Read the complete review

I found that the opening chapter of this book is nothing short of amazing. I just wasn’t able to stop reading it. It's a fantastic opening to a good book. I did think however that the first part of the book was better than the second half. The principal characters are all created very well with each having a separate and distinct voice. ...  Read the complete review