Book Blog: Atonement - Ian McEwan

So, I'm trying to remember why I wanted to read this book. I remember not liking the movie, and maybe I wanted to read it to see if the book was better? It wasn't bad, but it was really hard for me to get through. I actually gave up reading it when I only had about 100 pages left, but then read another book and came back to it because I didn't want to feel like a quitter. The last 100 pages were much better than the previous 100, so I felt ok about finishing it. I just felt like it had way too much drawn out "fluff" that didn't really feel necessary. Those were the boring parts. The longest parts should not be the boring parts in my opinion. The story is not all that bad though, and maybe I should watch the movie again sometime because it would not have all the long boring parts that were hard to read. Trying to appreciate the movie by reading the book may just have made me appreciate the movie for what it was. Next time I don't particularly like a movie, remind me not to read the book.