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I usually have a hard time with literary speculative fiction, but knew largely what I would be getting into with this one beforehand, having watched the movie three or four years ago.
It's a character driven novel, and there's not a whole lot happening in terms of plot, but this fifty-two year old (at time of original publication) British man of Japanese origin convinced me he was a thirty-one year old British woman looking back over her life in a world that is like our o ...more
I usually have a hard time with literary speculative fiction, but knew largely what I would be getting into with this one beforehand, having watched the movie three or four years ago.
It's a character driven novel, and there's not a whole lot happening in terms of plot, but this fifty-two year old (at time of original publication) British man of Japanese origin convinced me he was a thirty-one year old British woman looking back over her life in a world that is like our o ...more
Before starting this book I had never heard of the movie, and although I had heard people rave about the book, I went into it completely blind with no idea what I was in for. About half way through when I started putting the clues together and I realised where this book was heading I didn't want to go there. It seemed too horrifying. I wanted to put the book down and back away slowly. But of course I couldn't. I was drawn in and had to continue to the end, to finish the story of Ruth and Tommy a
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As much as have an intellectual appreciation for Ishiguro's prose and the themes he tries to cover in his story, this novel just left me cold and unfulfilled to the point that I just stopped reading.
It's not a bad book; perhaps it's a perfect storm of tone, style, and setting, but it just utterly failed to grab me. The British college setting totally didn't appeal to me, and I found the narration to be meandering and rambling. It felt like reading a transcript of an elder woman, in the grips of ...more
It's not a bad book; perhaps it's a perfect storm of tone, style, and setting, but it just utterly failed to grab me. The British college setting totally didn't appeal to me, and I found the narration to be meandering and rambling. It felt like reading a transcript of an elder woman, in the grips of ...more
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