The novel follows Henry Perowne through one Saturday of his life. Okay, so I know I can't actually marry a book, but I truly felt like I was involved in a lurid tryst with this novel, sneaking off to enjoy bits and pieces, pausing the book more often than usual to think about it, or just prolong the experience, because I knew when the book's time ran out, the love affair did as well. Sure, if you have been raised on thrillers and mysteries, this may not be the book for you, but if you like to actually think about your characters, about the politics of your world, then this will be a meaningful book for you. Maybe it's because I like literary novels and enjoy careful thought and the philosophy that can be found in the mundane, but I did not find this book boring at all. I have read some critical reviews of this novel - it's slow, it's boring, and so on. When they don't, it makes listening to dialogue an exercise in suspending belief, one that prevents the listening from ever becoming immersive. As much as these details shouldn't matter, they do colour the experience of listening to this audiobook after all, the voices need to match the characters. Then there's the grating American accent Crossley attempts when reading Dr Strauss's lines.
She sounds more like someone who'd be making change in a high street WH Smith. While the choice barely fits Perowne's young jazz-musician son, it fails completely on his daughter Daisy, who is an Oxford-educated poet. Worse, he pitched it a bit higher and re-used the same accent for Perowne's daughter. But for 'Saturday', he seems to have imported the same lower-middle class Southern English accent he used for Jed Parry and grafted it onto Perowne's son. I adored Steven Crossley's reading of 'Enduring Love'- it was precisely right. McEwan captures the British personality in so many ways. I?m American, but work with many UK physicians and nurses. I was absolutely convinced the author was an accomplished neurosurgeon, and was stunned when I went to his website () and found that he it not. The plot is suspenseful and very engaging. Perhaps it takes a physician to appreciate this book, but I found it absolutely stunning in it's accuracy and the way the author uses details to build the main character. Now, there are several and to my surprise they are poor! As a anesthesiologist/intensivist, I often cringe at medical inaccuracies in literature. When I got this book, there weren't any ratings yet. I absolutely loved it! I often use customer ratings and reviews to guide my purchases. I've been an subscriber for nearly five years and have listened to over 200 books.
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