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Date Posted: 09:19:31 01/06/08 Sun
Author: Charlotte (fired up)
Subject: Saturday

I have just finished Saturday and hugely enjoyed it. I have two comments. Firstly, having read many of McEwen’s earlier books, I spent much of my time waiting for the horror, for the character’s that I had connected with, to be killed in some way. I was let off the hook but now I feel there should have been greater collision between Baxter’s world and that of Henrys’.

Which is part of my second point. I found the life of the Penrose family too comfortable and too smug to really believe their concern for the world events around them. I guess I am suppose to be slightly put off by the arrogance of Henry’s thinking, but the whole family’s rationalization, made me cringe at times, especially when they talked through the events of the intrusions. I can’t work out if it is because I have heard such middle-class reflections in my own family or because it was hyper real. Either way it made me uncomfortable. As did the no mention of taking Henry’s mother into the family home, which, as we were told many times, was so big. Also that they only took one ornament from her house, as if those ornaments would infect the rooms in their home. This really annoyed me. Was it the intention of the author and highlights me falling for the book? If so the result was to stop me digesting some of the political points and caring about their world views.

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