46 - Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, 178 pages, Random House Vintage Books, 1999
WHY I PICKED IT: Borrowed from my friend Katrin
ELAPSED TIME: <1 day
RATING: Meh.
Wow. The first half of this book is required reading. Telling the tale of two old friends, at the funeral of a mutual ex-lover of theirs... their stories woven with such beauty to make me think of my own old friends.
But the story takes a bizarre and hateful turn; and the second half of the book reads like a bad tragic drama. With a slow-developing plot that shows these men to be self involved and self aggrandizing.
I would not recommend this book.
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