PositivePopMatters\"... brilliant but flawed ... Saturday tends to get bogged down with a surfeit of details. Everything in Perowne\'s day, as it\'s happening, has to be explained and expounded upon ... While the final effect is like a pointillist painting that adds up to something amazing, waiting for McEwan to connect the dots becomes a little tiring. Even though the novel doesn\'t quite collapse under the weight of its structure, it does sag a bit in the middle ... What saves the day (literally) is that McEwan is one of the most intelligent writers around, and the trips he takes the reader on in these numerous asides are almost always worth it. And yet, despite the author\'s intelligence and mastery of language, Saturday has its share of faults ... In Saturday McEwan gives us in a few hundred pages—not a life—but a day, and he does it brilliantly.\
