http://mybookclubreviews.com/2010/05/09/solar-ian-mcewan/ Reviews of Books Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:37:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mybookclubreviews.com/2010/05/09/solar-ian-mcewan/comment-page-1/#comment-2379 Patti's Pages Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:13:17 +0000 http://mybookclubreviews.com/?p=377#comment-2379 I thought the two snowmobile incidents were incredibly funny, but the rest of the book was kind of flat. I loved McEwan's Amsterdam and Saturday, but I wasn't too keen on Atonement or On Chesil Beach. This one falls somewhere in the middle. I thought the two snowmobile incidents were incredibly funny, but the rest of the book was kind of flat. I loved McEwan’s Amsterdam and Saturday, but I wasn’t too keen on Atonement or On Chesil Beach. This one falls somewhere in the middle.

]]> http://mybookclubreviews.com/2010/05/09/solar-ian-mcewan/comment-page-1/#comment-1825 Jasper Tue, 25 May 2010 11:58:11 +0000 http://mybookclubreviews.com/?p=377#comment-1825 There's a posting prompted by Ian McEwan's Wodehouse Prize for 'Solar' on the SolarUK blog. It looks at his thoughts on how the arts and science are not really so different - that the arts can be refined and improved as thought they represented a scientific theory. But I don't think Ian McEwan's books are any form of peak in the history of the English novel, admirable though they are. There’s a posting prompted by Ian McEwan’s Wodehouse Prize for ‘Solar’ on the SolarUK blog. It looks at his thoughts on how the arts and science are not really so different – that the arts can be refined and improved as thought they represented a scientific theory. But I don’t think Ian McEwan’s books are any form of peak in the history of the English novel, admirable though they are.

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