
The Cement Garden
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Ian McEwan
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Critic reviews
"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery, and irresistibly readable." (The New York Review of Books)
"Darkly impressive." (The Times)
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The narrator was hard to get past at times. Every time he read dialogue it was quite over dramatic and silly, otherwise he did well.
Highly recommend but not for the faint of heart.
Oof
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This book is about four kids -- siblings who range in ages of 6 to 17. The problem is there relationships are marked by incest, which the reader encounters on page 2! They have faced the deaths of both their parents, and decided to bury her in the cellar so that they could stay together. They believed they could hide the fact that they were living together without any guardians.
The missing element here for me is backstory. I wanted to know more about the parents of these kids and how they were interacting with each other. I wanted to know why this family became what it did.
an uncomfortable and painful story
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This book just made me writhe. I wish I had a Sci-fi forgetfulness procedure I could undergo.
In the absence of that, I worry that I will never be comfortable with I. McEwan again.
Sigh.
Bummed
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(Almost) unbearably dark
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Bro is that a cucumber in your pocket?
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Disappointing
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Really diabolical
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Not so happy with this one:
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not bad
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Too much Incest
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