I don't know what traumatic childhood event has inspired McEwan to write tragic, fatalistic and morbid novels but I'm beginning to think that I am a masochist for not having the will to stop reading them.
His novels have the potential of reuniting the world and spreading peace for, after every single occasion of reading one of his babies, I feel like telling everyone I love that I love them and that I will be good and will reform etc etc. One dose of McEwan away, will put out war and conflict.
You can see all the blood and gore coming a mile off but it doesn't assuage the emotions you feel when you read about them. McEwan has a way with words. He is both boring and witty - unlike other authors who are riveting to the sentence but from a holistic perspective are insubstantial and even inane.
I still think 'On Chesil Beach' is his best work (that I have read) though.
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