input: [0] checkbox [#] position 24 [cover] cover [title] title The Sense of an Ending [author] author Barnes, Julian [isbn] isbn 0224094157 [isbn13] isbn13 9780224094153 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 150 pp [avg rating] avg rating 3.68 [num ratings] num ratings 88,408 [date pub] date pub 2011 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Aug 04, 2011 [rating] Michael's rating 5 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 14 [votes] votes 14 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started Oct 22, 2011 [date read] date read Oct 24, 2011 [date added] date added Oct 21, 2011 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Hardcover [29] actions view (with text) [review] 
output: review When I see a book that is only 150 pages, I automatically think the book won’t have much to offer, but then I remember some great novellas like, Georg When I see a book that is only 150 pages, I automatically think the book won’t have much to offer, but then I remember some great novellas like, George Orwell's Animal Farm, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and now Julian Barnes’s A Sense of an Ending. Winner of this year’s Man Booker prize A Sense of an Ending is the story I always wanted an angsty book about the teenage years to be like. I think back to Catcher in the Rye and think The Sense of an Ending is everything that classic should have been, all Catcher left me with was the need to slap Holden repeatedly. The book follows the story of Tony Webster forty years later who receives an unexpected letter which leads him to remember his life forty years ago. The obsession with girls he had, his very first relationship and the memories of talking about philosophy, classical music and literature with his friends. This book is beautifully written, it was a real pleasure to read; it was intelligent, witty and I’d highly recommend it to everyone. ...more