Russell’s Reviews > Solar > Status Update

This has been sitting on my desk for a couple of years, and today I put aside a few other half-finished books to read it. Today just happens to be the 5th anniversary of its publication. I can see why a lot of people rate the book so poorly: its protagonist is a pathetic, self-centred physicist full of excuses for his lack of inertia - yet it's hard to dislike him completely. McEwan's writing is masterful as always.