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When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Sep 09, 10

3 of 5 stars
bookshelves: audiobook, fiction
Read in September, 2010

Honestly, if I didn't spend the whole book telling myself this was good writing because it was Kazuo Ishiguro, I'm not sure I would have noticed.

I'm sure there is supposed to be some deeper meaning behind the crazy unreliability of the narrator, but his delusions kept getting in my way. He was also self centered, and although I found him interesting in his saner moments, I never quite trusted them either.

I just didn't enjoy this book. I kept listening, hoping that something brilliant would pull the whole thing together for me, but sadly,it never did.

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