Books: an amendment (possible spoilers)

So I just finished that Ian McEwan book (On Chesil Beach)that I said was total poetry, and yeah, I dunno.  It's so well-written, and he gets inside people's heads so well.  But man, that guy is like an ace at frustration and hopelessness. It's all exquisitely-written, but so unsettling, ultimately.  Atonement was the same way. 

Or maybe it's way better than a happy-ending book for spurring people into action.  I don't know.  It just is one of those things that can leave me with kind of a cloud all day.  But at the same time, I kind of think that if I were the kind of person prone to inaction, this kind of book would make me want to change my ways more than one about some bold heroic type.  I mean, I might be ruining part of it for anybody that wants to read it, but honestly if you know anything about the author you probably already knew anyway.  And I'm not sure I'd recommend it.  Ok I just wanted to amend that other post where I was talking about how beautiful it is, which it is, but I don't know.

It's like this one time when I started watching Little Children with Kate Winslet, and got about halfway through and then went to small group and we were talking about the things that can make a couple have distance and have problems, and I was talking about how that movie did a really great job of kind of portraying and underlining the things couples do to themselves and each other.  Which it did.  And it sounded like I was saying (and I kind of was) that it was a great movie that was well-done and you should go see it.  Then I went later and finished it, and wow, kind of a super duper crazy messed-up movie.  I guess I'd still say that it was really well-done, but it's not one you want to be on record in small group as having recommended.  And then Jenn went and watched it and was like "uh, Abbey?  Wth?" 

So yeah.  I've learned to qualify and disclaimer my premature recommendations.