Amsterdam

So I finished Ian McEwan's Amsterdam this week. It is the fifth of his books that I have read and the one I have found the least interesting. It was interesting that this was the one that won the Booker prize. Perhaps the reason for this was because it focuses on the arts, politics and newspapermen. It centers around the lovers of a woman who has just died and the repercussions of this event on these four men. Atonement has a much greater sense of the impact on people that both personal decisions and larger events can have on people. Enduring Love also seems to exercise some of these themes more effectively and with the added tensions of obsession. I have also read The Innocent and First Loves, Last Rites which are also both disturbing and enthralling.