false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255909554m/4772110.jpg 4772110 10 4836931 book 2008 Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall total:287|5:37|4:91|3:108|2:44|1:7| 287 968 748 100 2 4 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:22:47 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:53:33 -0800 2009 The Remains of the Day immediately thereafter, which I loved. But I found this collection of short stories very weak -- there's a couple of good scenes and clever ideas but ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 13:39:52 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:14:50 -0800 2009 The Remains of the Day now by enduring three other Kazuo Ishiguro books: A Pale View of Hills, When We Were Orphans, and now Nocturnes. And now I'm finished reading Ishiguro for good. Nocturnes is a collection of five long-ish short stories, that were each too lon...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:07:18 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:09:58 -0800 2009
It would be one thing if stories in a given collection were monolithic in terms of tone and quality. This, of course, is never the case. And is, by extension, not the case with Kazuo Ishiguro's collection of five stories, Nocturne....more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:52:18 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:52:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 10:08:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 10:17:15 -0700 2009 Utterly sublime. These five short stories of music and nightfall just highlight what a wonderful writer Ishiguro is. Each of these stories stand on their own, but read as an ensemble, their slow & gentle power carries the reader away.

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Wow. Just read thi...more...]]> 2 4 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 13:50:29 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 13:36:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 14 05:04:15 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 05:05:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 14:46:12 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 14:46:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 03:04:26 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 03:04:53 -0700 2009
And ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 03:54:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 04:00:54 -0700 2009 Breaking Dawn...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:52:11 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 20:54:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 21:20:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 22:24:23 -0700 2009
There are five stories, eac...more...]]> 4 7 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 09:55:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:16:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:54:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:35:39 -0700 2009
Not all of these stories are painful...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:21:40 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:05:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 07:12:41 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:27:28 -0700 2009 Nocturnes has the ephemeral quality of a song cycle with recurring themes and motifs developed in different prose keys. Though critics admired Ishiguro's lovely writing, "unassuming to the point of near-in...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:40:03 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:18:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 06:50:14 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 07:05:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 12:03:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 13:57:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 10:04:12 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 10:18:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4772110