[HN Gopher] Ian McEwan and the Mess of Living
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       Ian McEwan and the Mess of Living
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-09-13 03:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | JNRowe wrote:
       | Lacking the shame to avoid asking for recommendations from time
       | to time1.
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       | Imagining you're the type of person that really wanted to like
       | Machines Like Me for its concept but found the exposition truly
       | painful, are other McEwan books worth a read? Basically was
       | Machines Like Me an outlier or standard McEwan?
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       | [ _Edit_ : Worded harshly, but without too much malintent; books
       | are art, and appreciation is personal.]
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       | 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22418898
        
         | kevmarsden wrote:
         | I haven't read Machines Like Me, but Atonement is one of my
         | all-time favorite novels. To give you an idea of my general
         | tastes, I'm drawn towards late 19th and early 20th century
         | writers. McEwan's style reminds me of English writers in that
         | period, such as Maugham and Greene.
        
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