Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Friday, December 1, 2006

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Short and sweet. I enjoyed it and thought it was quite cleverly put together. Considering it won the Booker Prize I was quite surprised to find Amazon laden with negative reviews - though maybe the two go hand in hand. I did spend half the book wondering where ‘Amsterdam’ would come in, and if you think about it for a moment (while reading the book) you get a pretty good idea where things are going, but I didn’t think it was so obvious as to be silly. I thought the ending was rather nice myself.