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Serge Ferrer _erge_errer — Great book. Interesting perspective on the outlaws of the old west! Nice little Christian love story, too!

Damian Cybula dcybula — khaateraat e 1 mogh ! ketaab e khooB e 1 safar e ZaaraT e chizaaE azash yaad migiri age bekhaay ... llvll

Jerry Celik jerrycelik — I thought these stories were hilarious. I'm not the kind of person that laughs out loud with books a lot but this one had me laughing quite a bit. Loved it!

Khaye Zapatero khayezapatero — Why do people keep recommending this book? It's awful. I realize that a simple, emotion-focused "defense" of Christian faith is attractive, but it is so clear here that Lewis is writing to comfort a war-ravaged Britain that he would probably quake in horror if he knew that people in a peaceful, "progressive" society were so often presented this book as if it had some meaning or value beyond that which the Christian faith offers through its own scripture. Hell, the title itself is so wrenchingly self-righteous it makes me hate it before opening the cover. Just read the Gospels.

Khaouatim Pato mahfoudpat35d8 — Such a hard book to read! Mostly I was just *mad* for the entire book except the very end. I would definitely recommend it, especially because it's been challenged.

Shawn Philhower _eniedvfxf112 — October 2013: Keeping my original review (see below) because it's fun to remember how much this book threw me, but after two years of almost memorizing entire parts of this book and reading others, I have some theories. This is Ian McEwan's best book. The others (Saturday, Amsterdam) don't stand out in the same way. That seemed fishy to me, until I realized that most of his best elements come from other stories. His skill was putting those elements together in a way that seemed fresh and new. Lady Chatterley's Lover: After reading about Mellors, Lord Chatterley's gamekeeper who's well-educated and smarter than almost everyone else around him, who ends up schtupping his employer's wife, I realized that Robbie is Mellors, only pure of heart. Cecilia's transformation from snooty to maternal and caring is more complete than Constance's self-actualization, but it's nonetheless there. Bonus similarity: the shocking use of "c*nt" in both stories. No Time For Romance: In his acknowledgements, this out-of-print book written by a wartime civilian nurse gets just a peep of a mention. McEwan does not disclose that entire passages from Lucilla Andrews's memoir are re-written, almost verbatim. The Go Between: Another mid-century novel about turn-of-the-century people. Here, another doomed inter-class couple use a kid to send letters back and for between each other. Kid has no clue what's going on, realizes, and promptly freaks out. See also: Briony, Cecilia, Robbie. To be fair, McEwan also mentions that this was an influence for Atonement. I'll keep adding the obvious similarities when I stumble upon them. I'm sure there's more. There's no getting around it: this is an old plot with a trick ending, and it strives to be the Most British of all the British books. The author borrowed liberally from others. That said, my 5 stars remains. It's still a favorite read that sucker punches me, every time. ________________________________ September 2011: "It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, hope, and dream to be -- to be, and! to lose." This book put me in shock for a solid week. I wouldn't call it pleasant, but how often does a book toy provoke such raw emotions that I felt them physically? Spoilers below, so read carefully. * * * * People who disliked the novel (and I've read their reviews, trying to figure out how in the world such a thing is possible) complained that the plot is an old one -- a misunderstanding that transfigures into to a horrible wrong that leads a tragic ending. The probably felt like I did at the end of My Sister's Keeper (which I still am embarrassed to have read AND cried at), which is completely emotionally jinxed. And having reread it four or five times in short succession, there are hints aplenty that Briony, for all her guilt and commitment to the truth later in life, is completely unable to write it, no matter how hard she tries. You reread Part III when she visits her sister and Robbie and the now obvious falsehoods taunt you: Robbie's jacket is said to have corporal's stripes (we know he wasn't eligible for officer's training), Cecilia is made a ward sister at an EMS (though we know from her last letter to Robbie that she works maternity at another hospital, and likely is just a senior staff nurse)...these among other inconsistencies should warn us, and at least confuse us, when the obvious moment comes at the end. You realize she had added them to assuage her guilt, to improve Robbie and Cecilia in the minds of the readers through their work. What I realize about those readers who hated it was they read for plot. Me, I'm a character reader. I didn't get a lump caught in my throat because I had been hoodwinked. I did it because it was Robbie and Cecilia I had lost at the end of the book. They meant something to me. You read Atonement because you have exclusive access, through Briony's lens, at their most human of thoughts. You read because you want utter knowledge that Briony fully understands her crime, only be gobsmacked at the end when she wonders if they would be there, still in love, enjoying her play with their extended family. Then you realized Briony hasn't changed much from 13 and, in fact, the book is all for her. I loved Briony's version of Robbie and Cecilia. I felt pain when I realized Briony had prevented me from ever really knowing them without her literary touch. They're fictional of course, but very, very real.

Ayrat Abzalov ayyaya — Lo ammetto non mi ha appassionato come TMI, ma ha avuto dei colpi di scena e una fine che mi hanno particolarmente intrigato. Credo che continuerò a leggere anche questi libri... Ah ovviamente sono stata lieta di rivedere Magnus Bane *_* Non capisco tutto questo hype per Jem... ossia mi ricorda molto Simon di TMI, ma non mi intriga. Mi interessa molto di più Jessamine e addirittura Sophie!