Maybe this just isn't the best introduction to McEwan...I just could NOT get into this book. Everyone I know has read and loved it, but I got the the third break in the writing, closed it, and had NO desire to pick it up again (so I haven't).My main question is: Isn't it a good idea to introduce the PLOT within a few chapters??? There's just a lot of detail for detail's sake...the first three chapters could have been summed up in about a sentance or two...maybe, "He is an excellent doctor, and not the type you'd want programming the music at your parties" would have sufficed?Maybe this one gets better...it's a shame that the opening bored me so much that I'll never find out.