tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post7749099008914048491..comments2007-12-03T19:20:49.076-05:00ohdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13301100314546526009noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post-44889082451328671672007-12-03T19:20:00.000-05:002007-12-03T19:20:00.000-05:002007-12-03T19:20:00.000-05:00I love McEwan, but I was disappointed by On Chesil Beach. Especially after the genius that was Atonement. Well, they all can't be winners.Kirstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406359666801767083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post-60251222207826576842007-05-02T18:24:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:24:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:24:00.000-04:00Thats Of Daniel Webster damn I did it againjim rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post-21375004503086607692007-05-02T18:21:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:21:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:21:00.000-04:00Dave -- I will read Atonement, I bought it but lent it to a friend after I read Saturday. I will tell her to hold off on her opinion until I read it myself. I would like to know your opinion of Lie Down In darkness I know its old but it made such an impact on me I'd like to know what you think if you have read it. I also apologize for my spelling and punctuation errors but as Adubon said in a letter to Lucy, " I can run the gauntlet through this world without the kind condescension or Daniel Webster' Just kidding. I should check my posts more carefully but hopefully, mistakes aside, my meaning is clearJim R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post-87068927532211843492007-05-02T17:31:00.000-04:002007-05-02T17:31:00.000-04:002007-05-02T17:31:00.000-04:00Wait til you read the sex scenes. <BR/><BR/>I think it's brilliant in its grotesqueness. And I think McEwan's brilliance has to do more with feeling and with depicting the inner life of the mind emotionally; that is why he is commonly compared to Austen. <BR/><BR/>I take it as a personal failure that I can't convey McEwan's thematic concerns more convincingly. I would encourage you to read Atonement, which I think is a masterpiece or narrative gamesmanship and feeling.ohdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13301100314546526009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730692.post-28728204140716500082007-05-02T09:20:00.000-04:002007-05-02T09:20:00.000-04:002007-05-02T09:20:00.000-04:00Dave That is the most disgusting description of a French kiss I have ever read. I know he is descibing how Florence felt about it but enough already.For a writer that can describe the precise inner being of a character, Styron has no equal. In his first novel. Lie Down In Darkness, he takes you into the heart, mind and soul of his character Peyton Loftis as she disinigrates into madness and suicide. If you let yourself go with him, you won't ever forget her or the heartbreaking ending of his book. <BR/>I'm going to read McEWANS' book when it becomes available but so far I see, as someone said about Updike, more style than substanceJim Rnoreply@blogger.com