The Children Act - Ian McEwan

I’m going to admit something from the start here.  I don’t like Ian McEwan’s books.  I have nothing against him personally, in fact I have some admiration in how he manages to put pen to paper when his head is so stuck up his backside.  I find his writing style overly pretentious for the kinds of books that he writes.  Prose will be peppered with laboured metaphors and unnecessary...

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan

One can judge a book on a number of different levels (plot and characterization to name just two), but writing I find is often the most contentious of all of them.  Some believe that for a book to be considered well written it must be full of complex literary devices, or it should utilise language that is alien to all but the most verbose and lexically gifted readers.  Others think that...

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