Customer Reviews

BLACK DOGS

5.0 out of 5 stars Love, Logic, Life, the "spriitual" thing.
McEwan tells a tale of a couple that met at the end of WW II. They are pretty, passionate, and intelligent people. They love each other, but cannot live together. He seeks "progression" through life as a scientist, author, politician while she sees life as a "transformation". She is searching for that spiritual thing in her that she 1st noted at a moment when she...

2.0 out of 5 stars At Least It's Short
This book reads more like a chunk taken from a longer unfinished novel... upon finishing it, I was left with a feeling that there had to be more.

"Black Dogs" features a remarkably boring romance coloured by the knowledge of a mysterious life-altering event involving dogs. The actual incident with the dogs occurs near the book's end and is the first time...