The Buried Giant in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Feb 11, 2022 Samantha rated it really liked it

Shelves: poc-author-2022

So beautiful, so sad, so dreamy. A testament to how the past ties us all together for better or worse.

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Mar 09, 2015 Jenny rated it liked it

This novel did not benefit by the way I read it—in fits and starts over the last few weeks. It has a dreamy and fantastic tone but I just couldn’t get emotionally invested in it. As a result, it felt more “sloggy” to me than I would have liked. There are parts of it that I found intriguing but mostly I felt like I was reading a variation on Waiting for Godot—people talking and talking and waiting for something that never seems to come.

Ishiguro tells the story of Axl and Beatrice, two elderly Bri ...more

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Jun 07, 2023 Kristen rated it it was ok

Shelves: england, fantasy, book-club, aoc, fairy-tales-and-folklore, 2023

I…did not understand this book. I've got plenty of game. I can talk about the allegory of the buried giant as the letting go of or forgetting of old grudges. I get that the mist is the collective forgetting that happens when we rewrite history or lose meaningful parts of that history. I understand the symbolism of the dragon, the pilgrimage, or the boatman. I can talk about the group of Axl, Beatrice, Wistan, Gawain, and Edwin as a microcosm of post-Roman Britain.

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Jan 04, 2015 Cari rated it it was ok

Shelves: literary, fantasy-sci-fi

I was so excited to win this ARC in a giveaway, but it fell kind of flat for me. I appreciated the style of the writing and the memory theme, but I don't know, the subtlety was just lost on me or something. ...more

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