Saturday by Ian McEwan
Blurb for the back cover:
“a novella in novel-clothing”
We open on Henry Perowne waking up, in a trance, to see an airplane flying much too low over London. Is it terrorists or just a malfunctioning Russian cargo plane? He doesn’t know, so he goes back to bed. But for the rest of his Saturday deviates from what he expected. His planned Squash game is delayed by a massive peace rally and a brief auto accident with consequences greater than they originally appear. This book is about how Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, spent his Saturday.
Right off the bat I had a problem with this book. It took nearly thirty pages for the first line of dialog to be spoken. Before that is was filled with Henry’s thoughts to himself and dense descriptions of things that had no importance to the story. This was a common theme throughout the book. Something interesting would happen or some characters would be in the middle of a conversation, then suddenly the reader is given two pages describing something unrelated. It was as if Ian McEwan gave his protagonist ADD and could not focus on one subject. I felt that these distractions really slowed the pace of the book and interrupted the plot. Since Henry is a neurosurgeon, these tangents are often about how the mind works. But for the readers who aren’t neurosurgeons it can be a bit overwhelming and dull.
This book did have its good moments. When characters interacted and the plot advanced through events, it was entertaining, possibly deep. The sheer amount of filler makes me believe that Saturday is really a novella in novel-clothing. As always, Amazon.com has a copy waiting for you if this sounds like your cup of tea.
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