Solar

The novel is completed. He has posted the bulky typescript to his publisher - old-fashioned, he prefers this unnecessary gesture to the casual economy of e-mailing a PDF - and now he is free of the tormented inner voice telling him to reword, rejig, rewrite, rethink. He knows it is not as good as hi......more

ian mcewan hates you. have no illusions. the guy flings more shit and pukes more bile in solar than g.g. allin ever dared dream. check it: mcewan dazzles in select passages, but the sum ain't always more than its parts -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing. those perfect books with clearly defined......more

Should I feel ashamed? According to some critics of McEwan’s Solar I should, since its hero, Michael Beard, is a despicable character, a philanderer, a plagiarist, an egocentric and a criminal liar… whom I totally liked. Moreover, it is a long time since I have been so immersed in a reading to forge......more

The main character in Solar can’t control his appetites. He eats like Jabba the Hut at a casino buffet, drinks like an alcoholic fish and chases women every chance he gets. He’s also an unorganized slob who would rather just travel or stay somewhere else rather than clean up his own living space. On......more

'Solar' no se parece a ninguno de los libros que he leído anteriormente de Ian McEwan. En él te encuentras grandes dosis de humor, inglés, por supuesto, llenas de ironía y sátira, muy del estilo del gran David Lodge. En mi recuerdo quedará el viaje que realiza el protagonista al Ártico, parte en la......more