
Amsterdam
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Ian McEwan
Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 1998
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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That said, I think that most of the action is interior, and McEwan delivers enough psychological insight to make this a compelling, if less than memorable, listen.
A Workaday Work From a Master
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Ian McEwan does his usual job: A book that grabs you at the start and gets you thinking "Oh my god, this is brilliant!" but that by the end leaves you wondering "What the hell just happened? Where did the plot go?"
There are two kinds of mistakes, McEwan commits every time: Either he digresses in the middle of a story and starts focusing on a part of the plot that is totally boring and irrelevant and makes you want to scream "please, return to the main plot NOW!"; or in the middle of a narrative, he starts rushing the plot through, and the book is over before anything has been explained, explored and exposed. “Amsterdam” belongs to the latter. It could be “part 1” of a three or four-part novel: but, unfortunately, it isn’t.
The humor is there, the richness of the language is there, the interesting premise is there… but no cigar.
A recurring disappointment
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Quite good
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I saw it as a modern fable, so the far-fetched ending didn't bother me. The reader was great. Definitely a worthwhile listen.
Quick and engaging, well-read
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Eludes to something bigger with no pay off
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Intriguing concept that doesn't catch fire.
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Terrible
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