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... book for this year but I wouldn't consider it a clunker. Plus, no clunker can beat my clunker from last year: the terrible On Chesil Beach.

... this book although I shall warn you that it's advisable to start it early in the morning and not late at night... 149. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan This was a pretty random "hmm looks interesting" read. I borrowed the book off my boyfriend who bought it for his modern lit reading list and ...

On Chesil Beach - Terrible waste of time this book. Oh look. He pre-ejaculated in the girls hand. She wasn't ready for that. Neither one was ready for it. Just dumb ignorant kids. I agree with un-recommending this one, but not because I didn't like it (I did). I just don't see it as ...

I borrowed my boyfriend's copy of On Chesil Beach last night and I will probably finish that later tonight it's pretty good so far although it is one of those enigmatic "what's it really trying to say?" books.

For English LTers, can you just remind us how old that makes your daughter? I'm guessing 16-ish? If I'm right then she has some great books to choose from and I would especially recommend Things Fall Apart, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Pride and Preju ...

... Rebecca, A Passage to India, The Eyre Affair, Sopie's World, Lord of the Flies, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, On Chesil Beach, Life of Pi, Beloved, 1984, Frankenstein, Of Mice and Men and The Color Purple. Still quite a long list, I know, but I've just randomly picked ...

... Franz Kafka Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy On the Road, Jack Kerouac The Boat, Nam Le On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan Amsterdam, Ian McEwan The White Earth, Andrew McGahan Death in Venice, Thomas Mann Life of Pi, Yann Martel Beloved, Toni Morrison ...

#45: I have never read that one by McEwan, so I cannot comment on it. I have read On Chesil Beach, which to me, was OK, but nothing earth-shattering. I really liked his Saturday, one of my memorable reads for last year, but The Child in Time was not up to that standard. I have authors, ...

38. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

#30 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 224 pages 3 stars "The year is 1962. Florence, the daughter of a successful businessman and an aloof Ox ...

... BOOKS!!! So, I've been to: Australia The Secret River Sarajevo The Cellist of Sarajevo England Coventry and On Chesil Beach Portugal Alentejo Blue China Snow Flower and the Secret Fan somewhere in S. America (Peru?) Bel Canto all over Europe People of the Book Ethiopi ...

... 2009 2. Fantasy Fiction Destiny: Child of the Sky by Elizabeth Haydon 3. Favorite Author On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Completed 10/21/09 4. Historical Fiction The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory 5. Jane Austen Pers ...

... I saw the movie before reading the book which alters the way I picture the characters. I had previously tried to read On Chesil Beach but couldn't get in to it, however after this book I will take a look at McEwan's other novels.

... the River Home by Frances Patton Statham Wetlands* by Charlotte Roche Town House by Tish Cohen On Chesil's Beach by Ian McEwan *This is the only one I have on a TBR list, and the only 1 of the 5 seen as a library book; the others are books that the (public ...

>101 KimB: On Chesil Beach didn't really 'wow' me either. I've not heard of Blood of Flowers. What's it about, and what did you like most? A Fatal Grace is Book 2 of a mystery series set in a picturesque Quebec village in Canada. This book has an alternate title in the US and UK. It's ...

We seem to have similar reading tastes. I really loved Bel Canto but was a bit underwhelmed by On Chesil Beach. I'll have to check out those ones that I haven't read yet from your list of favs. I've just finished Blood of Flowers which reminded me a bit of The Lady and the unicorn ...

25. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

... it's very quirky. I think it was the first McEwan that I ever read, and it got me hooked. My favorites are Saturday and On Chesil Beach. I didn't expect to like the latter, based on reviews I read beforehand. But it was one of those books that just stuck with me for a long time after I ...

I think Chesil Beach is his best that I have read - am not sure where I would list Saturday, Atonement. Amsterdam, and A Child in Time which I have also read. I need to read Amsterdam again, as it has been a few years and I can't remember much of it! I have Enduring Love but it might ...

I liked Black Dogs...but I also liked On Chesil Beach and Saturday, which a number of readers were not fond of. Amsterdam is my least favorite McEwan novel so far.

... FATAL GRACE by Louise Penny 31.EVERY SECOND COUNTS by Lance Armstrong 32.UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri 33.ON CHESIL BEACH by Ian McEwan 34.THE SHACK by William P. Young 35.SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See The Shack was placed in my hand by a friend before I ...

... done so far: Books: 1. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 4. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 7. ...

... a way that felt designed to be literary moreso than either plausible or realistic to the story already given. (Those were On Chesil Beach and Atonement by the way). In any case, I'll be very curious to see what conclusion you come to about this one's ending!

FINISHED BOOK #33 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Story of a couple on their wedding night. Hmmm, hard to review this one without spoiling the ending. It was an interesting story, but with way too many British references for me to appreciate. This novel is about that moment in your life ...

Have you read Saturday or On Chesil Beach? Those are my two favorite McEwan's. He should be due for another new book soon.

... get. After I get through that list of 10, I will make another list. This has to work! One of the books on my top 10 is On Chesil Beach which I see you enjoyed.

... look for more by Murakami. >56 That's interesting about Amsterdam Miss Owl. I've read Saturday, Atonement and On Chesil Beach by McEwan, I think I'd rate them in that order. I havent read Amsterdam or Enduring love. I wonder what Enduring Love is like? Oh Miss-Owl if your ...

... Siri Hustvedt as well that year) crack a few jokes, talk about writing about sex, read out the appalling sex scene in On Chesil Beach and then say "of course, I got to write about bad sex". It made that excruciating scene funny (not to the protagonists, of course) and much more bearable. ...

... the 1001 list... that compulsive thing explains my joining the ring too. I'd love to hear what Ian McEwan said about On Chesil Beach - you can't leave me hanging like that! (Feel free to PM me if you think there'd be some spoilers involved.) I'm a bit jealous of all this discussion ...

... much of a black hole at the moment! Just can't get the motivation to read something I *must* read right now.) I thought On Chesil Beach was rather a minor work, but not bad. It did help that I saw Ian McEwan talk at the Opera House soon after it came out (thanks for the ticket, jubby!!!!! ...

... meandering plot (or lack thereof). Thanks to a rare bout of insomnia last night, I'm halfway through Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach. I'd heard fairly negative reviews on it, but it's certainly not what I was expecting, so I'm pleasantly surprised.

Hi porch_reader, Yes I like McEwan too, especially Atonement, but I remember reviewing On Chesil Beach when it was first released and I felt like the only one saying it was mediocre meanwhile everyone else was going on about how fantastic it was. 27. Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie ...

... at the end of the year, it won my award for "I Felt Like I Should Have Liked It, but I Didn't." I wasn't a huge fan of On Chesil Beach either (although I usually like McEwan). But Good Omens is moving up on my TBR list, so I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it!

... you still don't know who are, you still aren't honest with yourself. I think it's a crap genre myself. It reminded me of On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan but was much much worse - at least I could see what McEwan was trying to do even though I didn't appreciate the book. I read a review of The S ...

... 11.22 15 Breaking Up is Hard to Do 12.1 16 The Adoration of Jenna Fox Own 1 Tales of Beedle the Bard 1.1 2 On Chesil Beach 1.21 3 Unshelved 4 The Last Olympian 5.7 5 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 8.14 6 Lamb 8.27 7 Hearts of Horses 8.13 8 Nineteen Minutes ...

... (impossibly ambitious) schedule involves reading middlesex alongside life of pi, atomised, an american tragedy, on chesil beach & the waves (good luck to me) & speaking of good luck mj (detailmuse): i think i did alright on my teacher certification exam as it was all ...

... Enduring Love or The Innocent. Atonement wasn't bad, but the story was stretched painfully thin. Mind you, it was in On Chesil Beach, and that's a novella.

Atonement, Ian MacEwan. Can't recommend Saturday or Amsterdam at all, nor the excerpts of On Chesil Beach I read, but Atonement is an entirely different thing. Beautifullly written (by which I do NOT mean florid and overwritten, as we were discussing in the other thread)--MacEwan in ...

... and his prose, while straightforward, is subtle and full of imagery and despair. If you have read Atonement or Chesil Beach and liked them, you will appreciate this one as well.

... today and was uncomfortably wondering, where does this situation end up? I sure don't know. FlossieT, I haven't read On Chesil Beach. That's an interesting comparison. I had the feeling that Aloma's mindset at the end was liable to change again in the future. The book took them to that ...

... finished All the Living last week and found it a thought-provoking read - think it would be interesting to read alongside On Chesil Beach (which I did NOT enjoy) for the different ways of handling the story of a marriage with serious communication problems. My one real complaint is that the ...

... very intelligent and very well written and eventhough it's a breath by breath account it held my interest far better than On Chesil beach did. I think the ending is a bit out-there, but I think there had to be a climax in the book and that was just the one that McEwan came up with. It's a ...

Hi pj77...no, I haven't read any other McEwan books yet but have several on the TBR. I'd like to read On Chesil Beach and Saturday sometime. I've seen mixed reviews of both but I've also seen a few poor reviews of Atonement so...to each their own! I'll let you know if I get to either of these ...

... got World War Z -- another zombie book! I don't know how she reads them. Zombies totally creep me out! She also got On Chesil Beach which I think is on the 1001 list. And for some really exciting news -- stop me if I already told you this -- my older daughter who is flying home to see ...

... A Novel of the Romantic Poets by Jude Morgan Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan White Teeth by Zadie Smith A few classics: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas ...

ON CHESIL BEACH. Done. Should have completed it in two sittings at the most and I'm an arse for dragging it out. Had a couple of projects and just couldn't find the right time to read this book properly. A good read, the characters' innocence, lack of experience really made one wince ...

... DREAM, UBIK, THREE STIGMATA, FLOW MY TEARS, RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH and about twenty of his short stories. I just started ON CHESIL BEACH. Unfortunately we spent a good chunk of yesterday outside, cleaning the eaves, raking off the flower beds, getting this old joint ready for spring/summer. ...

... Not something I'll come back to, though I'd recommend it if you like Stein or experimental work in general. 37n. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan McEwan is more stylized than I prefer, but I thought this was tighter than Atonement. I found it too shaped in the beginning, and ...

... I'm sure it would fit the bill for some folks. It's really not badly done--just not my thing. E. Non-U.S. Fiction 8. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan It was a bit too stylized for me at some parts, but I enjoyed it much more than Atonement by the end. The characters, though, I ...

Well, you know what I thought of On Chesil Beach. Worth reading but McEwan's getting very samey these days.

That's my favorite PKD. Enjoy, mon. Think it's ON CHESIL BEACH next for me. My wife finished it last week and said the couple in the book infuriated her. She gave the novel high marks so I'm looking forward to it--its brevity appeals to me as well...

I think On Chesil Beach is very good, but soooo inhibited and English - set in the days when those words were synonymous.

... review for you, Sales-y, but I think the quality of mercy in a critic is a good thing, don't you? I'm curious about ON CHESIL BEACH--like you, I've found the last couple of McEwan books on the dry side. His early novels were dark and macabre and I quite liked them. But I'm willing to ...

... about it. Now reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I went off McEwan after Saturday, but this one is shaping up quite well.

Here they are (in order of preference): The Book of Sand Bartleby, The Scrivener On Chesil Beach

... of all, it was read by Nathaniel Parker, Inspector Lynley from the BBC series, whom I have an incredible crush on. 31. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. A good book, maybe not great, but good. Made me think of all the times in our lives when one word or action would have changed ...

... the novel by emailing back and forth. I don't mind sex scenes if they are an integral part of the story (I'm one who liked On Chesil Beach), but it was excessive and obviously meant to titillate in this case.

... to read at least one book this year that I already own!). ETA: Smiler69, I just had a look at your review of On Chesil Beach on your thread and agree with you about the ending! And, by some strange coincidence, I followed that book with The Master and Margarita...

... by presenting intimate portraits of individuals. Enduring Love was another good one, in my opinion. I've also read On Chesil Beach - that was my first McEwan - but it wasn't my favorite. I haven't read any of his very early books.

Glad you enjoyed Atonement! I've read McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Black Dogs; both are good, Black Dogs is better, but neither is as good as Atonement, IMHO. I'm sure other people will have more to recommend, but honestly, I don't think that you can go wrong with any of them!

theaelizabet, you mentioned On Chesil Beach on my thread. Well I just finished reading it. I think I enjoyed it but was also a little disappointed if that makes sense. I like his writing and it was very well captured, but it was so short! The last section especially felt a little like he'd ...

Hi billiejean, I think it will be at least ages before I read another one! 9. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (a christmas gift) - Is it just me or is this a bit short? I did enjoy it, and it captures the lack of communication and understanding between the couple very well, but I couldn't help ...

... recently some shorter to short works. The longer ones present a more intensely drawn society with many parts. I've not read Chesil Beach but my guess is there's not much social construction gone into it, if it can be read in an hour. If that's the kind of thing you wish to read, suggest it ...

It's a fair question but On Chesil Beach presents the opposite problem - it takes an hour tops to read so it's probably not quite meaty enough for a monthly read. Also, I think one of the benefits of the club is that it encourages you to read things that are possibly a little foreboding or that ...

... am puzzled by 2 things: 1)Why do the books have to be so very long? 2)Why are all the books by dead people? Would Chesil Beach or Saturday by Ian Mcewan count as a possible book to read? I am going to read The Forsyte Saga that you folks have voted for but it does seem very long. ...

... and the ending surprised me to the point that I decided to read more. So I picked up Amsterdam (not my cup of tea) and On Chesil Beach (loved it) before snagging a BookMooch copy of The Child in Time... So first, I have to say, I don't think this is a book to be read only once. Why ...

... – Barbara Kingsolver Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan I lock my door upon myself – Joyce Carol Oates Going after Cacciato â ...

... Impressionist (still at the top of my contemporary favorites list), When the Emperor Was Divine, The English Patient, On Chesil Beach, The Accidental, Mister Pip, Sorry, The White Tiger. I read a lot of Stephen King years back and enjoyed most of those as well. I also read a ...

:) You're right, I'm no prude. I'm one of those who actually LIKED On Chesil Beach. It was full of sexual details--but those were essential to make the point of the novel and to develop the characters. In Blindspot, it was so obviously meant to titillate, and both the promising story and ...

Hi Rebeki, I read On Chesil Beach recently as well and was kind of on the fence about it. My first Ian McEwan and I have every intention of reading more of his work, so obviously I didn't dislike it. I'm also interested in getting into Joan Didion's writing but would rather start ...

On Chesil Beach - Terrible, terrible! I doubt I'll pick up Ian McEwan ever again. Just terrible.

3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan So, in spite of my stated aim of getting through the books sitting on my shelf, I have yet to read a book that was already in my possession on 1 January. This is another library book, read for the local library reading group that I've decided to join. ...

... on something that can speak especially to me. theaelizabet: I can see why people would have very divided opinions about On Chesil Beach since it does touch on issues that are controversial to some degree. I'm not sure I want to read Atonement especially after having see the movie which ...

... me="book6"> #6: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan This was my first Ian McEwan book. I had originally wanted to start with Saturday, but this book was underhand and it had the ...

I enjoyed your recent review of On Chesil Beach which is a book I have been resisting even though I have enjoyed other McEwans. On another thread someone said they read the whole book standing in a bookstore without having to buy it then. Sounds like an idea :-) The poem above to me cries "O ...

I read On Chesil Beach at the B&N one night. It's the first and only (so far) McEwan book I've read. I was looking for something to sit and read from the new hardcovers section and I'd heard McEwan wrote well and it was really short so I knew I'd finish it and not having to come back to read the ...

I read part of On Chesil Beach that appeared in The New Yorker (I believe) and that convinced me I didn't want to read the book!

... height="160" width="100"> 5. Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach (2007, 160 pages) Upon finishing this short novel I couldn't help thinking, did I miss something? I found myself looking for viable subtexts. Fo ...

26. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Short novel on a young couple on honey moon in UK in the sixties. The story of their first night together is mixed with a recollection of their relationship before their wedding. Ian McEwan is very good at writting about relationships between couples, ...

... had a similar, can I call it "hype index", to the J.K. Rowlings books. But the real tearsure in this calculation are: On Chesil Beach,Ian McEwan Special Topics in Calamity Physics,Marisha Pessl The Road,Cormac McCarthy Nineteen Minutes,Jodi Picoult Water for Elephants,S ...

... top 1000 books I found the following. Title:Author:Owners:Reviews:Percent Twilight:Stephenie Meyer:11749:565:4.8% On Chesil Beach:Ian McEwan:2607:127:4.9% Uglies:Scott Westerfeld:2614:128:4.9% Special Topics in Calamity Physics:Marisha Pessl:2853:141:4.9% The Road:Cormac ...

3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. For a book of such short length, I took an age to read this. I will readily admit to being left cold by McEwan's style in general, but I'd read so much about this and heard such positive buzz, that I had higher hopes. While I can appreciate a master of his ...

I also just finished On Chesil Beach and really enjoyed it. Part of the thing is that it took place in a time and location where something like that would have not been unlikely. I was also quite taken with McEwan's use of language. I guess that's why there are so many books, so that we can ...

I was a little underwhelmed by On Chesil Beach. I suppose the whole idea of a relationship and a marriage going sour over a misunderstanding about awkwardness regarding consumating the marriage was a bit obsurd. The woman in the book thought she broke him because he "released" early when she was ...

... y! From a library sale: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. I have not read any of his fiction in quite awhile. I'm due. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Sad to say, I don't think I have read this revered author. Never to late!

I'm about halfway through On Chesil Beach. I was a little slow to reading books by Ian McEwan, but after seeing the movie Atonement felt like I needed to go read the book right away. Then after reading that book felt like I must go out and buy other books by McEwan. And only a chapter into T ...

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Anxiously awaiting your review of On Chesil Beach.

... Cain series is not for everyone, but if you like that kind of stuff, it's better written than most. I just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. This one is shorter than most of his but still beautifully, beautifully written. It is one of those books where nothing much seems to ...

... Bird 31. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick 32. Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon 33. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 34. Saturday by Ian McEwan 35. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Nonfiction: 1. Operating Instructions: a Journal of my Son's First Year ...

... Johnston Engleby door Sebastian Faulks Lucifer door Connie Palmen Spiegelpanden door Sipko Melissen On Chesil Beach door Ian McEwan Non-Fictie: The master plan. Himmler's scholars and the holocaust door Heather Pringle The dragon's pearl. Growing up among ...

Welcome to 50 book challenge! I liked Atonement (though didn't love it). Really want to see the movie, though. I liked On Chesil Beach more, I think. As to Woolf, until this past fall, I had only read A Room of One's Own. Then I stumbled on the LT group "I Prefer Men to Cauliflowers" (y ...

#10: Saturday made my list of memorable reads for 2008. I also read A Child in Time which was very good and On Chesil Beach, which I am rather ambivalent about.

i finished On Chesil Beach....and started The Coffee Trader for the LT group read....and Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar for a group read on Shelfari...the juggling act i have to perform with the last two titles will be a wonder to behold!!

... is a catchall for all those library books I read while I'm at work. 1.Silk by Alessandro Baricco (finished) 2.On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (finished: Picked at random, usually not an Ian McEwan fan, but I did enjoy this one.) 3. The Seance by John Harwood (finished: Gr ...

>>119 - My now husband and I became engaged while reading On Chesil Beach out loud to each other. :) Of course, it certainly had nothing to do with the attitudes of the two main characters! I finished reading The Exorcist and my husband and I watched the movie together this evening. The ...

Yesterday I finished Saralee Rosenberg's Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead and Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach (I loved both!), and I'm starting John Green's An Abundance of Katherines this evening. Can't wait!

... rges Lords & Ladies - Terry Pratchett Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan An Anthropologist On Mars - Oliver Sacks Small Gods - Terry Pratchett The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon * Harry Potter And T ...

started On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan last evening and...boy howdy!...this is going to be one fun-filled...day at the beach....;-p

I agree that On Chesil Beach was not quite as good as the other two McEwan novels I have read. He is a masterful writer, so the prose was still beautiful, but the story was lacking a bit - and again, so short!

... most memorable reads last year, and I also read The Child in Time in 2008. I highly recommend either of those! I read On Chesil Beach when it first came out, but I was not as taken with it as a lot of people seem to be, although it was still good.

On second thought, I completely agree with Flossie. I enjoyed The Cement Garden, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, and Black Dogs far better than Amsterdam.

Hello and wlecome, Cait. I'm also a big McEwan fan (although I really didn't enjoy On Chesil Beach) and have somehow never read Black Dogs. It sounds like an absorbing read and one that's definitely going on my list (sigh).

... me="1"> Book #1: Black Dogs by Ian McEwan This is the third book that I have read by McEwan (after Atonement and On Chesil Beach), and I am totally head-over-heels in literary love with this man! His books are so artfully written, with phrases and sentences that leave the reader's ...

After much thinking On Chesil Beach ended up being my clunker. Just terrible. Can't believe it is on so many "best of 2008" lists.

I have read so many good ones this year but will try to pare it down to five. In order read: The Book Thief On Chesil Beach A prayer for Owen Meany Lolita Things fall apart

... to lose a lot of my "business"! We'll see. I also picked up Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book and Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach at Borders yesterday. I'm very excited to read both! Not sure when I think I'm reading all these books; they just keep piling up higher and higher...

... my first book of the year, The Tales of Beedle the Bard and went to the bookstore to spend gift cards and came home with On Chesil Beach and Breathing Lessons.

... books, from the following categories: 6 out of 6 received as Christmas gifts: Everything is Illuminated Haunted On Chesil Beach The End of Mr Y The Red Queen The Road Home Just want to read all of these in time for more new ones next Christmas! 2 out of 4 which I've ...

... I've read in 2009 1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 2. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 5. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 6. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev ...

... to reading or re-reading but I need to look at my library to see what they are. What I do know is that I have to read On Chesil Beach and Neil Gunn's The Well at the World's End in January for bookgroups.

... 9. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland 10. My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult 11. Shopgirl by Steve Martin 12. On Chesil beach by Ian McEwan 13. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire by J.K. Rowling 14. Kattengeheimen by Vicky Halls 15. Fotografiegids compositie by John ...

... new year I plan to read Atonement if I can cope with two McEwans back to back. The only one I've read of his so far is On Chesil Beach in 2007 which didnt grab me at all. Glad to hear, Jubby that your enjoying The Welsh Girl, good idea looking up Hess, I wish it had occurred to me :-) ...

... ook). All this talk of McEwan is tempting me to dig out the few that I have here. I have read Amsterdam, Saturday and On Chesil Beach, but I do have three that I picked up at his talk at the Opera House and another two from the Bad Bookshop at Central station (here in Sydney). I greatly ...

... for. I'm not going to forget it in a hurry, but I can't say I liked it. Atonement was wonderful, Saturday was great, On Chesil Beach wasn't great but was a good short read, and I've got The Child in Time somewhere, or was it The Comfort of Strangers? (I saw the movie adaptation of ...

... Stories) 7) Victor Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris 8) Alexandre Dumas : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, tome 1 9) Ian McEwan : On Chesil Beach 10) Cormac McCarthy : No Country for Old Men Total: 10 books, 4353 pages For countries read that comes out to: Belgium x2 USA x2 France x2 Spain ...

... de amor 7) Victor Hugo : Notre Dame de Paris 8) Alexandre Dumas : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, tome 1 9) Ian McEwan : On Chesil Beach 10) Cormac McCarthy : No Country for Old Men So that makes: Belgium x2 USA x2 France x2 Spain Russia Chile England I haven't read a Japanes ...

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan; read this year

Thanks for all your good wishes. 37 to go on chesil beach is about a virgin on her honeymoon in 1960s. She is terrified of sex. It sounds a bit odd but it is very good; delicately written and sweetly sad. I can recommend it. I have never read McEwan before as I hate reading about sex and that ...

I've just finished On Chesil Beach. It's only about 160 pages, but I've taken my time over it. I've been sipping it - you don't chug a single malt. It's a small thing (not slight), but practically perfect.

9) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ?/5 stars England Still not sure how many stars I want to give to this one. I need to think about it a bit more.

... a couple of weeks, but this fantastic book, a recommendation from avaland (thanks, Lois!) got me right out of it. Like On Chesil Beach, the backdrop to this novel is the stifling, oppressive atmosphere of 1950's England. The more I read of books like these, the more I wonder just how my ...

... speaking, I see a lot of nominations from many countries for A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, On Chesil Beach and others. The Australian libraries didn't agree on many titles but there were multiple nominations for Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare and ...

I read On Chesil Beach today, and liked it more than I expected. Now I want to finish rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets before starting on something more intensive... *looks at TBR pile and winces*

Interview With The Vampire (although I may have to call it a loss) On Chesil Beach Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets (reread)

Thanks Hemlokgang and dihiba. I've just added On Chesil Beach to my tbr pile. By the way, your description of this book reminds me of one of my favorites, ie Hilary and Jackie by Hilary Du Pre based on the life of Hilary and her sister Jacqueline Du Pre, the extraordinarily gifted chello ...

... for The Kite Runner it's a great story to read, but I agree A Thousand Splendid Suns is better. I didn't really like On Chesil Beach but it's such a short novel that I can't really de-nudge it. If you don't like it hasn't taken up too much time to read!

#124 - I agree with all of this re On Chesil Beach - it was my "best" pick for my reads of 07.

Hi hemlokgang I'm curious regarding On Chesil Beach. Please tell me why it was "marvelous" What did you like about this book. And, congratulations on reading 97 books...wow!

#97 - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - Marvelous!!!

I finished listening to On Chesil Beach today (lots of driving in the car) and thought it was marvelous! I am about to start listening to The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman.

Thoroughly immersed in The Mysteries of Udolpho in France, and also pondering virginity On Chesil Beach.

I finished The Trial. Amazing! Why did I take so long to read Kafka? I am now listening to On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. He is the reader. Immediately engaging!

On Chesil Beach *** by Ian McEwan 11/18/08 "Brokeback Mountain" *** by E. Annie Proulx 11/18/08 Amadeus ***½ by Peter Shaffer 11/18/08 O Pioneers! (#295) *** by Willa Cather 11/19/08

... (255) 205. The Zookeeper’s Wife - Diane Ackerman (368) 206. The Meat and Spirit Plan - Selah Saterstrom (240) 207. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (203) 208. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody (212) 209. Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks (284) 210. Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz (409) 21 ...

... too. And I don't see any particular consensus building here, so I will probably just add to the confusion: I grant that On Chesil Beach was a fine piece of writing; I wanted to shake some sense into the characters, and the book is not on my favorites list, but I certainly haven't forgotten ...

I didn't like On Chesil Beach at all. The only reason I did finish it was because it was short. It didn't do anything for me. I really enjoyed The Kite Runner and The History of Love. I also enjoyed Garden Spells, but not quite as much as some other people I talked to about it. Mo ...

I have also got from the library (because it's not safe to spend money on modern fiction), and am also reading, On Chesil Beach and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Just to be difficult here - I'm invariably disappointed my Ian McEwan (though I did love On Chesil Beach) and thought Black Dogs was marginally less disappointing than some. My pick would definitely be Jean Brodie - a book I've read about a million times and can still read again any time. Didn ...

My nudge is for The Idea of Perfection as it is a very enjoyable read. I found The Road and On Chesil Beach amazingly powerful and wrenching stories - well worth it but be prepared. Great bunch of books. I love these bookshelves!

... is that! I think I was just comparing it to taking a bite of a lemon - a sharp, austere, palate-cleansing read. On Chesil Beach seems to be another opinion divider. I've not read it yet, but find McEwan desperately uneven - I loved Atonement and The Child in Time, quite liked End ...

I would de-nudge On Chesil Beach - found this a massive disappointment, and I was completely unconvinced by the tragic dynamic between Edward and Florence. Like bad Hardy (and I am, ordinarily, a massive Ian McEwan fan). I would give 3/4 of a nudge to The History of Love, which I thought was ...

... on someone else's thread, I thought Kite Runner was overrated and contrived. Not a waste of time, though. When I read On Chesil Beach I was puzzled until the end, and then it all came together beautifully to me. McEwan really is a masterful writer. It's very, very short. I liked Gilead ...

... contrarian. I hated Water for elephants and loathed Kite Runner Although I usually like McEwan, I did not care for On Chesil Beach at all. I abandoned Gilead even though people around me raved about it. Stone Diaries I read a very long time ago and remember liking, but must confess ...

Lots of lovely choices there. I'll nudge The Idea of Perfection or On Chesil Beach - both excellent IMO.

I would have to join the nudge of On Chesil Beach 'cos it was a jewel of a book IMO. I think some people were annoyed at the brevity of it, or maybe the content - but I thought that it was really good. I just finished reading Telex from Cuba after hearing great reviews. I thought it was ...

Nancy, On Chesil Beach was my top read of 2007. I know that a lot of people disliked it, but that book lingered in my mind for weeks after reading it. I absolutely despised Gilead--but that's another case of me disagreeing with the majority. I found it tedious and the main characters ...

... by Carol Shields Stiff by Mary Roach The Road by Cormac McCarthy Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates Edited due to this being the first time I've uploaded a photo :-)

... Books for Young Adults 2001) 4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Booker Prize winner 2002) 5. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Booker Prize shortlist) 6. What Was Lost by Catherine o'Flynn (Co ...

... Kite Runner - movie tie in edition The Other Boleyn Girl - movie tie in edition Stardust - movie tie in edition On Chesil Beach - HC Neverwhere The Historian American Gods Baby Proof I'm willing to send international provided if you mooch two books. I'm from the Philip ...

From Audiotogo.com: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan From Amazon: Biographie de la faim by Amelie Nothomb

... orgetting The Spare Room Breath Ursula, Under The Deportees The Red Tent Careless The Uncommon Reader On Chesil Beach . . . and there are a number of others that I would like to add to my list, but it would make it ridiculously long :)

36. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. What a sad story. Now I'm depressed.

... generally find McEwan's characters at all sympathetic. In fact, just about the only book of his that I really enjoyed was Chesil Beach, in which I felt something approaching real empathy for both the main characters. I do prefer his shorter books (thought possibly just BECAUSE they're shorter ...

sushidog - I've been avoiding On Chesil Beach - the reviews were so overwhelming negative when it first came out, but you're right. It is short, so even if I don't like it at least it won't take long. Unlike Augie March, for example. Back on the TBR! judylou - I think if you liked both Amste ...

msg 76 I really loved Saturday, but hated Atonement. If you want to read another McEwan gem, try On Chesil Beach. Very short. Very precise. Love your list. sushidog

... Mitchard 14. Getting Rid Of Matthew by Jane Fallon 15. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 16. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 17. The Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson 18. Beyond Ugly by Constance Briscoe 19. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 20. The Kite Runner ...

Here's mine: http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/sydamy I have just added On Chesil Beach.

Any place but here Mona simpson On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan In the land of dreamy dreams Ellen Gilchrist North of Hope Jon Hassler Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs Wallace Stegner

... randomly choose one suggestion and pass the book on to the winner when I've read it. Choices include Water for Elephants, On Chesil Beach, Story of a Marriage, and more! Details at http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/august-what-should-i-read-next-giveaway/

... by Michael Cart, ed. 9. The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook: Revised Edition by Jeff Isaac 10. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan I didn't care about these two and their little problem. 11. Golden Spur by Dawn Powell Fun in Greenwich Village from the early 6 ...

... and Lucky Jim were written in the 1950's as well. The Sand pebbles (1962) The Reivers (1962) by William Faulkner On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (set in 1962) Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone

Decline and fall of the unconsoled,wild swans for whom the bell tolls, in cold blood in slaughterhouse five on chesil beach.

I'm on the "editorial board" of booklounge too, and so far won two books (over the past 15 months). The first one was On Chesil Beach, which unfortunately I already owned, and the other was Effigy, by Alissa York, which was on my TBR list. The books just show up out of the blue, so it's always ...

... by Jonathan Franzen 19. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell 20. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer 21. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 22. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 23. Inge & Mira by Marianne Fredriksson 24. Miss Webster and Chér ...

... Lingering Questions, Sarah Napthali The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, John McWhorter On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön Honorable mentions to go From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, < ...

Strange fits of passion On Chesil Beach sent The police car to the rescue Suspicious characters in a State of denial insisted they were Sweethearts forever. Clouds of witnesses exposed another Great honeymoon disasters The last witness said The honeymoon is over.

#45 My first Ian McEwan novel On Chesil Beach. A quick but incisive read. This is a classic example of a breakdown in communication between two people who love each other dearly. I found it quite sad, in a way.

... But perhaps I'm biased, because I often agree with her. She's the only critic who shares my feelings about Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, for example (here, see especially paragraph 4).

19. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

... this was the first McEwan novel I ever read, and he is now one of my favorite writers. I highly recommend Amsterdam, On Chesil Beach, and Saturday, if you haven't read them. Atonement got more praise, but I wasn't as thrilled with it. His early stuff--anything written before Endur ...

... at the right time. *If this is true, it says something interesting about the almost universal and unequivocal praise for On Chesil Beach...hmm...

There is a lot to like about Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, but not a lot to love. One has to enjoy the quiet competence with which McEwan has put the novel together, the way his prose ticks along, and the scenes in which McEwan shows us what it was like to come of age before "sex began ...

... oks/08-books-read/">here. 37. The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber 38. Silk by Alessandro Baricco 39. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

... Light, fluff reading. At least she doesn't take herself too seriously (which increases my enjoyment) 82. (111) On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (166pp) I picked this up to substitute for A Thousand splendid suns on public transport only to discover that I got emotional over this ...

... do a whole lot for me. I read this one whenever I had the chance and I thought the ending was fitting to the story. 15. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Another great book, tells the story of one couple's wedding night. A short book but very worthwhile. 16. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink ...

Cape Fear Gift From the Sea Taming a Seahorse Wide Sargasso Sea On Chesil Beach Sea Change by Robert B. Parker All Rivers Run to the Sea And the Sea is Never Full

... on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers Lying Awake by Mark Salzman My French Whore by Gene Wilder On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke Running the Table: The story of Kid Delicio ...

The Creation by E.O. Wilson The famous scientist seeks the help of Creationists to save the earth. On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan. A beautifully written book. But did you ever want to take 2 characters & knock some sense into their heads? Ex Libris Anne Fadiman A fun book to read, ...

I have read On Chesil Beach - in fact, it was ranked my #1 for 2007. I read Amsterdam a few years ago but can't remember much about it - will have to reread it again some day. I have several of his books on my TBR pile, and look forward to reading them.

... going to. I loved Saturday, though. It was only the second book by Ian McEwan that I had ever read, the first being On Chesil Beach.

... I'm going to give the latter another try, since I just don't think I was in the mood for it when I read it. Have you read On Chesil Beach yet? It's quite a change from Saturday, but--unexpectedly--it haunted me for weeks after I finished it.

... of the books I've read so far this year. I've read a bit of an McEwan, but not Atonement. I thought in his most recent one, On Chesil Beach the author was really coasting on recent successes. It was finely and beautifully observed, but felt incomplete to me. Other books I've read so far this ...

... 01/22/08 Love in the time of cholera – Gabriel Marquez 01/24/08 Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keys 01/25/08 On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan 01/27/08 I am the messenger – Marcus Zusak 01/29/08 The handmaid’s tale - Margaret Atwood 01/30/08 Whistling in the dark – L ...

21. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (Finished April 4) 203 pgs After watching Atonement for the first time this last week, I decided it was finally time to go down to the library and pick up this book I have heard so much about on NPR. I thoroughly enjoyed McEwan's style. While a quick read, ...

... Love and anything after. Some of his earlier work is a bit too creepy for my taste (incest, sadomasochism, etc.). On Chesil Beach was one of my top reads for 2007, and I also loved Saturday. I'm a bit less enthusiastic about Atonement.

Brothers the hidden history of the Kennedy yearsDreaming War,Blood for oil Body Surfing Anita Shreve, On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan, from the library

... by Richard Askwith (although this was a re-read, it's going in because I loved it even more the second time round!) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Kim by Rudyard Kipling Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage

In no particular order: A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell The Road by Cormac McCarthy On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey March by Geraldine Brooks

Catching up: #22: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It is written by a talented author with a sure hand. That being said, this book irritated me in many ways. I've seen a lot of rave reviews for it, but I agree with one LT reviewer who wrote that this book is a waste of McEwan's (very real) ...

19. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (book on tape) 20. The Last Summer (of you and me) by Ann Brashares (book on tape)

Cariola, you obviously have very good taste. :=) On Chesil Beach is one of my top 5 for this quarter. Mister Pip is on my wishlist, and I had a Rachel Seiffert book in my hand 2 days ago. I've never read any of her books and can't remember if it was Afterwards, but I have to go back to ...

izzybee, we've read a lot of the same books. On Chesil Beach was one of my favorites last year. Here are three of my recent reads that I highly recommend: The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert All very ...

18. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan A heartbreaking story of love and loss set in 1962, which focuses on a newlywed virgin couple and their fears and expectations as they approach their first night together.

4. Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach A young couple realize on their wedding night that there are things they are unable to discuss and problems they are unable to solve. They are in love, but still, they cannot get really close to each other, they do not get to know each other really deeply. The ...

... fiction. I also read Distant Shores and On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah over the last couple of weeks. I tried On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, but like A Thousand Splendid Suns was not quite in the right mood to read it just yet. I can usually go back to those kinds of books ...

... a full-length one. Having said which (and no doubt made myself very unpopular with all those millions of Coelho fans), On Chesil Beach is also short but I think that's one of the ones that works. Speaking of McEwan - didn't like Atonement either - thank God we're all different! I ...

... Steve Martin I did not like this... at all. It started off nice but became extremely boring after a few chapters. 12. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Short, but very good. I liked this a lot.

... is trying to flee - she wants an authentic sense of family and community, whilst he wants success and money. 21. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Another book that is still haunting me several days after I finished it. What I always love about McEwan are the beautifully crafted ...

... :) Really enjoyed Virgin Suicides but think I missed a lot of American pop culture references. And I thought On Chesil Beach was just fantastic. Simple and short, but at the end I felt like I'd read a book three times as long. Sure there will lbe some more McEwan in my fifty by ...

Picked up yesterday from the office book shelf: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Obviously from some of the trade paperback books left there, someone has similar fiction reading tastes to mine.

... - a bit like some of the Roald Dahl stories. I didn't get his later books until "Saturday" (touchstones not working) and On Chesil Beach. With all the hype about the movie "Atonement" I thought I might buy the book in spite of the cover spiel not really appealing. Taking in account #69 ...

... and The Cement Garden, neither of which I was too crazy about. Just too weirdly creepy for my taste. The later novels--On Chesil Beach, Saturday, Amsterdam, perhaps even Atonement in it's own way--are much more introspective. It's almost as though he has developed a tolerance for ...

... - Julie Myerson The End of Alice - A M Homes The Book of Evidence - John Banville The Bad Seed - William March On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton The Magic Toyshop - ...

In the order I read them: 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 3. Minaret by Leila Aboulela

I finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan and Minaret by Leila Aboulela. I enjoyed them both. Next up is March by Geraldine Brooks.

... Gibbons and Life, a User's Manual by Georges Perec Best new reads: A.L. Kennedy's Day and Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach Best non-fiction: I may be some time: ice and the English Imagination Best surprise: Remainder by Tom McCarthy But I may change my mind tomorrow.

9, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

>248 I liked On Chesil Beach, but I read that one a while ago. :)

Hmmm, I was going to go for On Chesil Beach until that last one.

... sexuality Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown Marriage On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan Delta wedding - Eudora Welty Ocean Adventures Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger ...

... of both Notes from the Underground and If on a winter's night a traveler is noted and I will not relinquish them. On Chesil Beach was moving, beautifully written and in my experience, I think still relevant today i.e. people still don't talk to each other about their problems as much ...

... from these, although I don't know yet which one. It will depend on my mood. The View from Castle Rock Saturday On Chesil Beach The Golden Notebook Oryx and Crake The Possibility of an Island

15 february (book12) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 20 february (book 13) Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco

On Chesil Beach was one of my favorites for 2007. From what I read in advance, I didn't expect to like it, but it haunted me for weeks after I finished it.

Atonement was my first McEwan, and so far, it's been my favorite. I've only read that, Amsterdam, Enduring Love and On Chesil Beach. Enduring Love unsettled me, but kind of in a good way, if that makes sense. I thought On Chesil Beach was very good as well; there were a few things about ...

... it out to paste in my reading journal. Although, as Cariola say, sometimes books "sort of seep in" (and yes, I can see how On Chesil Beach could be one of those, though for me that one hit me right at the end).

... hitting me on the head, and I won't quite realize how much it affected me until I've finished it. That happened to me with On Chesil Beach, which stayed with me for weeks after I read the last page.

My top three were: The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

... Singing - Lisa Carey Enjoyed this one, although I'm not too enthusiastic about it - see review for details. 13. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan A bit disappointing, never really engaged me, but was an interesting snapshot of a time that feels long gone. 14. In the Company of ...

... stories. I listened to it on my mp3 and each new story brought something unexpected. I really, really liked it. 17. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan I have to count McEwan up there as one of my favourite authors now. I love the way he can take a moment, just one experience and ...

7. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 8. If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino

... flashbacks. #4 - Amsterdam - Ian McEwan - Finished January 16, 2008 Not as good as Saturday, but better than On Chesil Beach, in my opinion. As McEwan does, big themes (death, relationships, personal pursuits) are explored through intimate portraits of individual lives. #5 - Pi ...

... Atwood Assigned category: (1) 1001 Books ... (1/8) Could have been categorised as: (2) Authors not previously read 4. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Assigned category: (6) Favourite authors (1/8) Could have been categorised as: -- 5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by ...

I'm On Chesil Beach.

... really enjoyed. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, which I think I've probably done enough raving about already.... On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, upon which I fall firmly into the "it was fantastic" camp.

A gift card and a little bit on the credit card got me three for two at Borders today. On Chesil Beach, What is the What and The Raw Shark Texts. I hope the TBR pile doesn't fall over when I add these three!

Finished Blaze last night and now have to decide between On Chesil Beach or The Amber Spyglass. Both very different I know, but I am not sure what I am in the mood for right now. Oh . . . and I am also enjoying in the car Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (which is starting to grow on me) ...

... to when I have schoolwork to do that requires just about the same amount of brain power. I'll probably also be reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan soon.

... - Julie Myerson The End of Alice - A M Homes The Book of Evidence - John Banville The Bad Seed - William March On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton The Magic Toyshop - ...

... bit ordinary. It was pretty contrived - I too wasn't convinced at all by it. But you are yet another person to recommend On Chesil Beach - it was quite a long way down my To-Read pile, but I might promote it now...

#10 Finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. The man is a genius. What a wonderful, heartbreaking, poignant morality tale. One can be "in the right" and still be wrong. This is so true within marriage. And also true in the larger world. Wonderful, wonderful.

I finished On Chesil Beach today and thought it was fantastic. I'm also hoping to finish Foreigner and Kim this week - I seem to keep starting books and I'm actually enjoying all of them, just easily distracted it would seem!

... German Shephards and the acknowledgment of afterlife. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Currently working on On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

... Faraday Girls: Monica McInerney 2. The Sonnet Lover: Carol Goodman 3. Cat's Eye: Margaret Atwood 4. On Chesil Beach: Ian McEwan Two of the above (numbers 2 & 3) were by authors I had not read before. While I enjoyed The Sonnet Lover it was not as compelling as I ...

On Chesil Beach stayed with me for a long, long time.

... with one tonight. I have 15 pp. left to read in Atonement by Ian McEwan - like it a lot, but not quite as much as On Chesil Beach.

18. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan McEwan really is the master of the close up, focused tight in on those moment-by-moment events which shift someone's world entirely off-axis. This one is still filtering through, but, man... Subtle and brutal, and gorgeously crafted, except for the ...

... Raj with Kim, as well as hanging out with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in long-ago England and spending some time On Chesil Beach.

I'm planning on finishing off On Chesil Beach this week - need to find an hour or two where I can just sit down and blitz it. It's so short and it's not really a picking up and putting down again type book. Also reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Simon Armitage translation, ...

28. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Nice and short, read this in a day. Its my first McEwan, though I've seen a couple of films based on his work. As I read I sometimes found him a bit clinical with the characters, like it was a case history. However overall I liked it and them...that ...

... chance to buy a new book in the departure lounge! WS Smith selling Ian McEwan's new novel in paperback for half price - On Chesil Beach, so I readily paid out for that and only have about 20 pages to go now...it's a real steamy page turner, and nice and short so should have it finished later ...

... by Katie Price 155,355 sold in Eng, 8 on LT. Making Money by Terry Pratchett, 144,790 in Eng, 662 on LT On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, 135,585 in Eng, 1,052 in LT. Edited for touchstones.

... by John Steinbeck Patrick Hamilton A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Aug. * On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Mar. * The Last Summer (of you and me) by Ann Brashares Mar. * Open House by Elizabeth ...

#2 dihiba, On Chesil Beach was in my top five for 2007 as well. I really didn't expect to like it after reading a few reviews--how silly to write a whole book about an unconsummated wedding night, right? Wrong--because there was so much more to the book than that. McEwan just keeps getting ...

... that, I'm flexible! Cariola, I definitely want to read Atonement soon; I also have A Child in Time in my TBR pile. On Chesil Beach was my favourite book read in 2007. I'm going to try to find cheap secondhand hardcover copies of books I want to keep (most of my books are given away or ...

... Marquis of Bolibar by Leo Perutz (3) The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy (4) The Book of Small by Emily Carr (4) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2) Non-fiction: My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe (4) Two sisters and their mother by Françoise Héritier (1) How Sex C ...

... Journey to the West Volume 1, though it's getting less ploddy as it's turned into some quite comic folklore. I picked up On Chesil Beach at the supermarket the other day as it was out in paperback and started it, but I've now been sidetracked as someone on LT recommended Outlander and the ...

My top 5 for 2007, in no particular order: Fiction: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwen Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Can You Hear the Nightbird Sing? by Anita Rau Badami The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson I am a bit ...

Here's another vote for On Chesil Beach - think it was my favourite for 2007. I started an Augusten Burroughs book (not Running With Scissors) but gave up after 3 or 4 pages - just not my taste. Atonement by Ian McEwan will be on my list for early 2008.

On Chesil Beach was one of my favorites this year. No, there wasn't a lot of action; but I tend to like introspective books. This one stayed with me for a long, long time after I finished it.

>158 amandameale I loved On Chesil Beach. Spare yet deep. I can see your take on it as perfect. >154 momom248 >157cabegley As for Running with Scissors, I felt it was permeated with some perverted sense of glee. Readable but certainly not up to the hype and a definite deterrent to ...

Here's another vote for Gilead - I nearly gave up on it, but was eventually drawn into the story. And a vote for On Chesil Beach - to me, a perfect novel.

Running with Scissors was my least-favorite book of last year. At least it was short. I really liked On Chesil Beach, though--not McEwan's best, but still pretty good.

Gilead--I didn't like it either but it wasn't my worst read this year. That had to be Running With Scissors or On Chesil Beach. I know many others loved On Chesil Beach. But I just thought it was slow and boring.

... in reading Gilead; not young (but not quite that old). And I can deal with slow-paced books; I'm one of those who loved On Chesil Beach, for example, and Henry James is a favorite. I can enjoy a book in which I don't like the main character, but he/she needs at least to be interesting. This ...

... for 2007, excluding rereads: The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope The Accidental by Ali Smith On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini And a few honorable mentions: ...

... and The Yacoubian Building. LT gave me a push to read, at last, some Ian McEwan. I loved Saturday and On Chesil Beach. Atonement is next, and no, I won't see the movie. Two personal things also moved my literary year forward. First, I finally got a group of ...

... keep trying to turn things around:-) Then there's that amandameale with her dry sense of humor;-) I was disappointed in On Chesil Beach, although I thought it quite good. I expect more from a GOD like McEwan. I should also add that The Dud Avocado was a bit of a dud with me. Perhaps I ...

*86 bookaholicgirl: I loved On Chesil Beach. What's your address? I'm coming over to give you a smack and a good shake!

I just realized that I forgot one - On Chesil Beach. I know that I lot of people loved this book but I just wanted to smack both characters and give them a good shake.

I too thought Chesil Beach was excellent. Books I started in 2007 and couldn't finish: Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Mama Makes up her Mind by Bailey White The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The first ...

#46 I didn't read the excerpt you mention. There were certain parts of On Chesil Beach that raised an 'ick factor,' if you will, as I read it. But that was what made my response to the ending all the more surprising.

... Physics. I read it last year and thought it tried much too hard to be clever for the sake of being clever. As for On Chesil Beach (#36 momom248), I read an excerpt in the New Yorker and knew I wouldn't like the book. And ditto for teelgee (#45), I couldn't read past the first ten ...

... Bones. I really disliked it when I first read it, but re-read it a couple years later and enjoyed it. So I might like On Chesil Beach if I end up re-reading it in maybe a year or two. Sometimes its just what mood you are in that can sway you on a book.

... stand it. Tipperary as with others listed above a huge disappointment as well. I too could not finish it. And lastly On Chesil Beach was painfully boring and I cannot imagine why all the hype.

... liked it. This one was very boring, considering it was dealing with the Restoration I thought it was a poor effort. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan I know a lot of people *loved* this when it came out but I thought it was rather pointless?

I just finished On Chesil Beach for a book group meeting on Tuesday... Last week I finished The Gathering for the same group, and then started Those Who Save Us for my other group at work. I absolutely loved The Gathering, was so-so about On Chesil Beach and am only about half-way ...

Last night I read On Chesil Beach in one sitting. I'm not reading Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver.

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#181 Loved On Chesil Beach--although I didn't expect to like it, based on reviews I read beforehand. I'm a big McEwan fan--but not a fan of Atonement. However, I'm looking forward to the movie version.

I finished Billy Bathgate so I'm now moving onto On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I loved Saturday but didn't like Atonement. I've been looking forward to this one...the line at the library was so long that it took 4 months before it came in this week.

I finished Rhett Butler's People, which was a pretty good novel, and now I am reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It looks like a quick read, so I hope to knock it out this weekend. Then, I plan on delving into The Year of Jubilo by Civil War author Howard Bahr. Happy Thanksgiving ...

... auteur om zo'n grote prijs te winnen. Heeft iemand al iets van haar gelezen. Ian McEwan was ook genomineerd met On Chesil Beach. Dat vond ik een prachtig boek. In de Volkskrant van vandaag stond hierover: het boek heeft de omvang van een novelle, maar leest als een monumentale roman ...

... the shortlist! Is it just me?? My favourite was Animals people by Indra Sinha but I would have been happy to see On Chesil Beach or Darkmans to win as well.

28. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Very different from what I expected (not sure what I expected). Great character study of two young people on their wedding night - in flash backs and present time (ca 1962). McEwan captures the gender communication differences so well. We get to hear what ...

I am On Chesil Beach on the Dorset Coast with Florence and Edward on their wedding night. I'm such a voyeur!

Finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Sunday; still listening to 44 Scotland Street; and last night started On Chesil Beach.

On Chesil Beach from the library.

58. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Beautiful writing; loaded with irony. Two intelligent but inexperienced people fall in love, marry, and implode in a storm of misunderstanding and lack of communication on their wedding night. McEwan gives us the thoughts and perceptions of each of ...

... reason. I also figured out why it took me so long to read it besides the whole back to school really busy thing - I read On Chesil Beach: a novel in the middle of reading this. I am now reading Paper Trails by Pete Dexter who was at one time a newspaper columnist in this area. It is ...

... Romesh Gunesekera 31. The Plague, by Albert Camus 32. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne 33. On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan 34. Buddhism without Beliefs: a Contemporary Guide to Awakening, by Stephen Batchelor 35. Once Upon a Marigold, by Jean Ferris ...

I just finished On Chesil Beach: a novel by Ian McEwan - I can't say it was a favorite but I did enjoy the ending. I am currently reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver which I am really enjoying.

... the fast food and meat industry - very good 44. All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld - excellent 45. On Chesil Beach: a novel by Ian McEwan - ok - I found the ending interesting but didn't particularly enjoy the rest of the book.

... generate more sales for a lesser known writer but probably not for someone like McEwan. I think the issue this time is that On Chesil Beach probably has no chance of winning so shortlist it - is it because the prize also needs a 'big' author on the list to generate some interest? There does ...

... hell...) nor Animal's People, but hopefully one of them will be a stunner... I'm underwhelmed by the inclusion of On Chesil Beach, Mister Pip, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist and very disappointed by the exclusion of Gifted and What Was Lost. Wouldn't it have been nice to have ...

... Cape) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton) Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape) Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster) edited tochstones

... I just didn’t like it. The narrative trick was way too contrived and disturbed the whole reading experience for me. 6. On Chesil Beach – interesting subject, told with some humour. Also completely insubstantial. Sorry! 7. I'm half-way through What Was Lost, which is looking quite ...

kiwiflowa & cariola, I guess even though I didn't like On Chesil Beach it did affect me somehow as I am still thinking of it several weeks later. Maybe someday I will try to re-read it and see if I feel any differently. Cariola, you are right plot is important to me and I do like how McEwan ...

... - Lit Lite but I need one of those right now! Dipping in and out of Collapse by Jared Diamond as well. I loved On Chesil Beach. I like the spareness of his prose - I think it's refreshing to read an author who takes a serious emotional issue without emoting excessively about it. ...

#113 Frinda, I responded to your similar post on Book Talk. I read On Chesil Beach in July. Hadn't expected to like it much from the reviews anad descriptions I had read, but I'm a big McEwan fan. I was surprised by how long it stayed with me after I finished. The next book I read after that ...

#106 momom248 I wasn't impressed either this is what I wrote in the 50book challenge group: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan A very short novel (160ish pages) about a young 20-something couple on their honeymoon in England in 1960. Both are virgins and are anxious about the big night ahead. ...

... as I'd like to learn more about homeopathy and have an interest in medicine. I recently finished two books. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan is a novella about a young couple (both 22) on their wedding night in 1962. They're both virgins and it's an interesting look at the ...

Looking at the reviews, I think I am one of the few who did not enjoy On Chesil Beach. I guess I expected more--it was rather boring and (I hate to say this) sort of stupid. I really didn't like it at all. Anyone else feel that way? # 16 Charlotteg & #14 LesaHolstine--glad to heard the rave ...

After finishing Eat, Pray, Love today I whipped through Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach. What a great book! Such spare writing yet so incredibly descriptive. It will have to have a re-read as I didn't get the allusion to seat 9C towards the end of the book. However, now I'm into Ironweed ...

45. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan A very short novel (160ish pages) about a young 20-something couple on their honeymoon in England in 1960. Both are virgins and are anxious about the big night ahead. This was my first Ian McEwan book and I was disappointed. It's saving grace was the ...

From the university library I picked up On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan and Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. From the second hand bookshop I picked up: Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie The bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seie ...

#11 kiwiflowa, you will whirl right through On Chesil Beach. It took me only a few hours over the course of a few days while vacationing in London. I plan to reread it in one sitting.

I have just finished reading We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Later today I will start On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. If I finish that before the week is up I will start Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

... have a look through Borders (in NZ) for the books keen to read a few before the winner is announced. I could only find one: On Chesil Beach. I was wandering through the shelves looking in person and next time I will look in the store database to make sure they don't have them but I was extremely ...

#83 I loved On Chesil Beach--even though I didn't expect to. It has been a long time since a book stayed in my thoughts for weeks the way this one has.

#92 I've read Amsterdam and On Chesil Beach by McEwan - loved CB, my favourite so far this year. #96 Read the Mary Stewart books years ago (and I do mean many years) - probably as a teenager. It'll be fun to reread them. I stopped at Value Village again last night, looking for books ...

... has been getting increasingly introspective as he ages, and it's reflected in his characters, especially in Saturday and On Chesil Beach. Personally, I find that shift a lot more interesting than the quirky, violent, psychological stuff he was doing in The Cement Garden or The Comfort of S ...

... Saturday. McEwan keeps getting more and more introspective as he ages, and it is showing in his characters. Loved On Chesil Beach as well.

Last week I read On Chesil Beach, which I loved. I also read Fun Home, my first foray into the graphic novel genre. It felt a little like cheating to be done so quickly. Last night I started Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I only recently discovered Murakami with Norwegian ...

... enjoying it, but I was SO annoyed by the ending that it colored my whole view of the book. Then I read an excerpt of On Chesil Beach that appeared in The New Yorker, and that did it for me and McEwen.

... first McEwan I'd read too and I did go back for more. I've read Atonement, Amsterdam, Enduring Love, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach, in that order. Enduring Love was my favorite, with On Chesil Beach and Saturday probably tied for second, but I really did like them all. My tbr pile is ...

... planet who didn’t like Atonement (very Mills & Boon, imo), I thought Saturday wasn’t half bad, and enjoyed On Chesil Beach quite a lot. But… I don’t think the latter is Booker material at all. It’s the sort of clever vignette that many great writers can (and do) produce ...

I'm with amandameale: didn't expect to love On Chesil Beach but it has really stuck with me. I think I need to reread Atonement. I generally love McEwan, but I just found the characters in this one extremely irritating.

>59 yes, that's the first thing I noticed also. Very refreshing. I have read On Chesil Beach and just finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is good - thoughtful - but didn't wow me. I've just started "Mr. Pip" which amandameale had recommended previously (touchstone not coming up with ...

... I keep hearing about interesting books that aren't out here yet and don't want to forget about them. I've also read only On Chesil Beach, although I almost picked up The Welsh Girl a few times. I will probably order it next time I shop online.

I've only read On Chesil Beach. I was hoping to get Gifted by Nikita Lalwani through Early Reviewers, but no such luck. And I've been waiting for my library to process Mister Pip, and I've been meaning to see if they have The Welsh Girl. So now this will spur me on. Unfortunately it's ...

... by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre) Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray) Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape) What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn (Tindal Street) Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann) Anim ...

No doubt about it: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I finished it several weeks ago and it's still rolling around in my head.

... Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One of those novels that starts out well and sort of falls off the further you get into it. 43. On Chesil Beach--Ian McEwan Wow. I generally love McEwan but wasn't sure about this one, after reading a few reviews. It's so much more than the story of a failed ...

February 11. The Glass Menagerie--Tennessee Williams 12. Richard III--William Shakespeare 13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead--Tom Stopppard 14. The Merchant of Venice--William Shakespeare All rereads for class prep. It had been some time since I read R&G ...

I'm starting late, as I just joined LT about five weeks ago, but, fortunately, I keep a book journal and can list what I've read so far in 2007. Pleas post you comment on any of my books--I'd love to talk about them! January 1. Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman ...

-->178 I had the same reaction to On Chesil Beach. Initially, I thought the subject matter was rather icky, and the reviews I had read made me wonder how McEwan could sustain a reader's interest in it for the length of even a short book. But there was so much more to the novel than just a ...

I just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It is probably the best book I have read this year, and it certainly is the one that has moved me the most. Yesterday I got through The Kingdom of Strangers by Elias Khoury, which I didn't like nearly as much as Gate of the Sun. I also ...

... my list of awfuls: The Bridges of Madison County. I was utterly insulted yesterday when I read a review here comparing On Chesil Beach to it. As if!

I went to City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco yesterday, and bought the following: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul No God in Sight by Altaf Tyrewala A Tale of Two Lions by Roberto Ransom The ...

I finished two excellent books over the past week, On Chesil Beach and Astonishing Splashes of Colour. I'm not sure what to start next. I'm leaning towards Zadie Smith's On Beauty or The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar. Anyone have any thoughts on either?

... Suns by Khaled Hosseini Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Early Leaving by Judy Goldman Incendiary by Chris Cleaves Q & A by Vikas Swarup The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patric ...

Just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. A short book, a simple story, written in McEwans spare, elegant prose. I read it in a couple of hours yesterday. It didn't affect me as deeply as Atonement, but it did get me to thinking about the consequences of our choices, and the road not ...

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch The Sea by John Banville On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan River Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Greetings From Sandy Beach by Bob Graham

I can't say enough good things about Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I read them both on vacation and am still thinking about them.

... enjoying it (but I'm only about 40 pages along). I'm not British, but I do usually enjoy the Booker nominees. I finished On Chesil Beach last week. McEwan never disappoints.

dihiba, I just finished On Chesil Beach and totally agree with you, it was great. I didn't think it would grab me, but it did--especially the reflections at the end.

Started On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan yesterday and finished it this morning. Fantastic book!! Probably the best I've read so far this year. Highly recommend - very quick read, too.

... Secret River by Kate Grenville This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Spies by Michael Frayn Non-fiction The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby London in the Nineteenth Century by Jer ...

I checked out On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan from the library today - it's the speed read deal, so only have it for a week, but it looks like a 1-day read. Yesterday and today I sent out my first MoochBooks - 5 books in all. Can't wait to get some in the mail for myself!

... have two weeks off work, so maybe I can put a dent in my tbr pile. 23. Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton 24. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

>65:readingnut: Can't help butting in re On Chesil Beach. I thought it was so well written. It would provide a lot of talking points especially if there were readers of different age groups and sexes. A friend of mine who's nearly 80 was more interested in talking about the food at the ...

I just finished Knit One, Kill Two and began On Chesil Beach yesterday.

... Island (wrong touchstone, but couldn't find the right one) by Dorothea Benton Frank, Dead Days of Summer, and Chesil Beach. I probably won't read them all, but I don't want to risk running out!

On Chesil Beach recently had me sobbing. I haven't cried that hard over a book in years.

What did you think of On Chesil Beach, differentbeat? I have only read Enduring Love by the same author and really enjoyed that one. On Chesil Beach is almost at the top of my pile of books now.

... Hidden Anxieties by Lesley Hall (1) Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (2) Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter (2) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2) Spleen by Olive Moore (2)

1. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1) 2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (2) 3. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (1) 4. Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (2) 5. Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (2)

... Russell Ask the Dust by John Fante Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty Engleby by Sebastian Faulks On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

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... - I have three favourites this month: Engleby by Sebastian Faulks, Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

I'm not sure about my fifth book yet (I'll edit it in later) but having just finished On Chesil Beach, I have my top four for this quarter: Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter Dedalus book of Finnish fantasy On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Toddler-hunting by Taeko Kono Spleen ...

Two new books: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Both will go on my TBR shelf until I finish one of the four books I'm working on right now.

I'm in England: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

I finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, and while it wasn't the best I've read of McEwan, I still thought it was very good. It was very emotional and uncomfortable, and I know I'll be thinking about it for the next few days, poking at meanings. Today I'll start The Road by Cormac McCa ...

Finished Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (IMPAC Winner) and enjoyed it, with some reservations. Started On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, my favourite contemporary writer. Loving it.

... I mean NN is worth the cost of at least three of a 21st century author such as Ian McEwan Just look at the length of On Chesil Beach. I am not critical of McEwan but I do suggest there are advantages to long books that people don't always consider. 3) also one has the advantage of ...

I finished Away by Amy Bloom last night and just posted my first LT review. My friend gave me On Chesil Beach this evening, so I'm going to go start it now.

Had a good quarter with reading:- 5 favourites - On Beauty by Zadie smith On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini

... Crace The Pesthouse Matthew Kneale When We Were Romans Don DeLillo Falling Man I wasn't impressed with either On Chesil Beach or Day - so I move to strike both!

From that list, I'll give my possibles:The Raw Shark Texts, Measuring the World (yes, a different one), On Chesil Beach, Divisadero, and Tomorrow. I'll look for more...

... Kennedy My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru The Cleft by Doris Lessing Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney Gods Behav ...

I did a marathon read of On Chesil Beach, the newest novel by Ian McEwan -- amazing as usual. Now I'm on to The Immaculate Conception by Gaetan Soucy and I'm completely enamoured. There's something incredibly bohemian about Quebec literature -- something that is never apparent in the ...

... memoir of a young boy's time in Nazi camps which has subsequently been unveiled as - perhaps - fraudulent.... and On chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, a look at the tension of sexual love...

... writing but not an easy read 29. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norway) IMPAC Dublin Prize Winner 30. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (UK)***

I'm watching Edward and Florence's honeymoon on the Dorset Coast of England in On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

... books as involving a protagonist who has a moral lapse, it would be interesting to apply that theory to his latest book, On Chesil Beach. **POSSIBLE SPOILER** This is a fabulous little book which uses the theme of sexually incompatibility as a basis to test the characters. This couple ...

I just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I've always found that Ian McEwan is one of those writers I think I should enjoy reading more than I actually do, but I have to say that I found myself really liking this novella. Maybe I like him better in small doses. Last night I started ...

We are happy to see favorites at any time of the year but as a clarification, the original intent of the thread was to post one's top five favorites from the first quarter of the year (January through March), with the intent to post again each quarter. It is expected to be an intriguing exercise to ...

#3: I am assuming you read On Chesil Beach because it was an ARC? please, tell me, how did you end up enjoying it? I had never read anything by McEwan, and this definitely proved why I should never even attempt again. One word to sum up Chesil is...: DULL. I yawned my way through the ...

My wife went to Homebase (garden centre) so I hopped off to Borders and bought On Chesil Beach and Killing Johnny Fry - both on my 'wants' list as a result of press comments.

... Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian 67) Empire Falls by Richard Russo 68) Rhett Butler's People by Daniel McCaig 69) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 70) The Year of Jubilo by Howard Bahr 71) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 72) The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 73) Rebe ...

... due out in June; however, I just saw a starred review in PW so I'm wondering if it is coming out sooner... I also read On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. He is really an artist and uses the language beautifully but I found myself impatient with the story itself. It's obviously already out in ...

1. I am Charlotte Simmons 2. On Chesil Beach 3. Dispatches from the Edgeby Anderson Cooper 4.Broken by William Cope Moyers 5.Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

Fiction: This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Non-Fiction: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White (Why oh why have Touchstones put up Harry ...

I started On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan yesterday and finished it today. I keep thinking about the two characters Edward and Florence and wishing that they'd 'only connect' physically and otherwise. There is pathos to their situation. The novel also reminds us that the very early 60s were ...

lois, I've read several excerpts from On Chesil Beach in the last week or so, none of which were particularly exciting and am really in no hurry at all to read it.

I forgot to mention that I finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I love his prose style and there were some delightfully crafted passages (a true artist!) but I admit to being a bit impatient with the story. Very good, but I'll not rave about it (it's no Atonement, if you know what I mean).

I'm in Dorset, England...near the beach with two newly married virgins (talk about being a third wheel, eh?) in On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

... I got it from. Still, it is worth every penny. It is one of my favorite books of the year thus far. I've now picked up On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, a reader's copy the bookstore handed to me last week. >74 Louis, I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like the latest Lethem. My husband ...

#42bettyjo: ooh, I can't wait to get my copy (On Chesil Beach). I read an extract in the Sunday broadsheet and the writing was superb.

#18 - avaland I finished On Chesil beach not quite in one sitting but certainly in one bed. I woke in the middle of the night and just carried on reading... I'll avoid mentioning anything about the plot - it is fairly compact. Ian McEwan doesn't waste a word and describes an excrutiating ...

... prize and, as best I can tell, is still only published in Canada. >17 I just brought home a reader's copy of On Chesil Beach though don't know when I'll get to it. I'll be, of course, interested in what you have to say about it.

A good start to the reading weekend with the arrival of On Chesil Beach, the latest Ian McEwan yesterday, which will be read as soon as possible - tonight. In the middle of Half of a yellow sun, which I picked up from a Library on impulse and so far it is proving to be stunningly good. It's ...

... at the bookstore... Light by Margaret Elphinstone Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun