Ian McEwan is a swell writer I just can't get passionate about. Most of the time, when I read a new author, if I like him (or her) I read more. That makes sense. In some cases, I don't like the book I read, but I can tell there's more there--that the author in question has a ton of talent and a good voice and a masterpiece somewhere in his back catalog, or in his future for that matter; so in some of these cases, I'll read and read until...well, until I finish the next book, find myself mildly disappointed, and put it on the shelf, and after a year or two, I'll find another book by said-same author in a store and decide to give them another shot.
