The Children Act
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Ich mochte die Idee hinter dem Buch sehr gern und die Melancholie des Ganzen. Aber leider zog sich die Geschichte etwas, sodass ich für das kurze Buch lange Zeit gebraucht habe. Da wäre etwas mehr drin gewesen...
2.5, I cant decidethis book really made me feel angry and bored and a lot more. but still the story had a lot of potential and I kinda liked the ending. idk
I'm extremely torn with this book. It was a relatively short read but I was struggling to stay awake and interested. It's my first time reading Ian McEwan and I don't want to judge his writing by one book so I will at some point (in the future) pick up another book by him to read. Among the things I struggled with in this book was the pointless meanderings and superfluous attitude of Fiona the judge (please the irony is not lost on me by the use of unecessarily big words. Pun is intended). It's like she deems herself so above everyone else and it's honestly annoying. It's hard to try and connect to such a character. The ending was also anti-climatic in that although it was filled with "suspense" it was still such a labour to get to. I'm not even sure if this is 2⭐️ or 1.5⭐️ P.s. maybe seeing the trailer for the movie also had me expecting more but even now I don't feel like I want to watch the movie.
Fiona Maye ist Familienrichterin und wird zu einem dringenden Fall gerufen. Der 17 jährige Adam hat Leukämie und nur eine Bluttransfusion kann sein Leben retten, welche er und seine Eltern jedoch aus religiösen Gründen ablehnen. Fiona muss eine Entscheidung treffen und besucht ihn dafür im Krankenhaus, wodurch sich beide für immer verändern.
Das Buch hat mir wirklich gut gefallen. Das Thema ist spannend und es lässt sich wirklich gut weglesen. Einzig das Ende war für mich schon einige Seiten vorher vorhersehbar. Ich mochte vor allem den Schreibstil sehr, weshalb ich Lust habe noch mehr von Ian McEwan zu lesen.
This book had me captured from the first page on. I loved the intertwining of court cases and her personal tragedy throughout the book. I enjoyed the language and the story very much. The story is very controversial and it shows exactly what our problems are nowadays. Sometimes we care too much how it looks rather than how it feels. It is more important what everyone thinks about us than what we think of ourselves. And also the many cases over religion. We fight so much for what we think is right and forget the people behind the argument.
McEwan never disappoints. He observes his characters like a psychologist. Also, the amount of time he put into research, in this case researching Family Law, must have been immense. The line between the main character’s personal and professional life more and more blurs as the story reaches its climax. That way McEwan also manages to work in a sexual innuendo (he always does, doesn’t he?) in a story about a High Court judge who has to decide whether a 17 year old boy is allowed to refuse a lifesaving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs.
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Ich mochte die Idee hinter dem Buch sehr gern und die Melancholie des Ganzen. Aber leider zog sich die Geschichte etwas, sodass ich für das kurze Buch lange Zeit gebraucht habe. Da wäre etwas mehr drin gewesen...
2.5, I cant decidethis book really made me feel angry and bored and a lot more. but still the story had a lot of potential and I kinda liked the ending. idk
I'm extremely torn with this book. It was a relatively short read but I was struggling to stay awake and interested. It's my first time reading Ian McEwan and I don't want to judge his writing by one book so I will at some point (in the future) pick up another book by him to read. Among the things I struggled with in this book was the pointless meanderings and superfluous attitude of Fiona the judge (please the irony is not lost on me by the use of unecessarily big words. Pun is intended). It's like she deems herself so above everyone else and it's honestly annoying. It's hard to try and connect to such a character. The ending was also anti-climatic in that although it was filled with "suspense" it was still such a labour to get to. I'm not even sure if this is 2⭐️ or 1.5⭐️ P.s. maybe seeing the trailer for the movie also had me expecting more but even now I don't feel like I want to watch the movie.
Fiona Maye ist Familienrichterin und wird zu einem dringenden Fall gerufen. Der 17 jährige Adam hat Leukämie und nur eine Bluttransfusion kann sein Leben retten, welche er und seine Eltern jedoch aus religiösen Gründen ablehnen. Fiona muss eine Entscheidung treffen und besucht ihn dafür im Krankenhaus, wodurch sich beide für immer verändern.
Das Buch hat mir wirklich gut gefallen. Das Thema ist spannend und es lässt sich wirklich gut weglesen. Einzig das Ende war für mich schon einige Seiten vorher vorhersehbar. Ich mochte vor allem den Schreibstil sehr, weshalb ich Lust habe noch mehr von Ian McEwan zu lesen.
This book had me captured from the first page on. I loved the intertwining of court cases and her personal tragedy throughout the book. I enjoyed the language and the story very much. The story is very controversial and it shows exactly what our problems are nowadays. Sometimes we care too much how it looks rather than how it feels. It is more important what everyone thinks about us than what we think of ourselves. And also the many cases over religion. We fight so much for what we think is right and forget the people behind the argument.
McEwan never disappoints. He observes his characters like a psychologist. Also, the amount of time he put into research, in this case researching Family Law, must have been immense. The line between the main character’s personal and professional life more and more blurs as the story reaches its climax. That way McEwan also manages to work in a sexual innuendo (he always does, doesn’t he?) in a story about a High Court judge who has to decide whether a 17 year old boy is allowed to refuse a lifesaving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs.