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I've read every other Ishiguro book with joy, especially A Pale View of Hills, a lyric masterpiece. This book however reminded me of the way I wrote in high school, when I was in my D&D phase.
I learned from reading this book that it's evidently very hard to write about knights and ogres etc. or maybe even to write about a medieval society in general without falling into some kind of parody of bad fantasy writing, even if your goals are literary. Ishiguro here adopts a stultifyingly dull cadence ...more
I learned from reading this book that it's evidently very hard to write about knights and ogres etc. or maybe even to write about a medieval society in general without falling into some kind of parody of bad fantasy writing, even if your goals are literary. Ishiguro here adopts a stultifyingly dull cadence ...more
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Laurence Scherz
marked it as to-read
