My Book Club: Flips Flipping Pages

My Book Club: Flips Flipping Pages
Flips Flipping Pages (my book club) celebrates "NOLI-gayang Pasko: Noche Buena 2012" with Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere on the discussion table

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Dozing with Discomfort

On The Comfort of Strangers (1981) by Ian McEwan


Two couples, never alike in dignity, meet, and disaster could not have been spelled out more clearly. The unfolding, however, is excruciatingly slow. McEwan’s novella could be the most effective sedative since counting sheep. Sexual perversity has never been made so boring.
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3 comments:

  1. gegeMay 20, 2009 at 3:31 AM

    I have to read this book. Just to see if it's as bad as you say it is. Waaaaa.

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  2. Peter S.May 28, 2009 at 6:17 AM

    Have you seen the movie adaptation? It stars Helen Mirren, Rupert Everett, and Natasha Richardson.

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  3. czar tignoMay 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM

    @Peter, No I haven't. I heard it's great; better than the book, in fact. Will have to watch it soon

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