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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

Start date: March 5, 2021

Finish date: March 19, 2021

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Mar 06, 2022 Mary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Klara is an artificial friend (AF) to a sickly girl. Klara understands the essential loneliness of the humans around her and does all in her power to ameliorate the barriers that divide the humans from one another. Her empathy is greater than the other AF’s and, dare I say, than the humans around her.

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May 29, 2021 fenchurch rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, dystopian

3.5 stars This was my second Ishiguro book and it can be summed up, again, as "not a gripping book and it took me a second to finish, but it gave me a lot to think about." Pacing remains an issue for me; the first ~200 pages were a bit trying until a Thing was finally revealed in the last third of the novel — this seems to be the author's writing style. As in the other novel, many things are not explained in detail which leaves me a bit dissatisfied. I'm starting to think that I'm not a fan of ...more

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Oct 24, 2021 Linda Parker rated it it was ok

I have enjoyed other books by the author (Remains of The Day, and Never Let Me Go) but this story was so flat and slow and nothing much happens. There have been other books and movies about AI (AF in this book for Artificial Friend) and no original ideas or interesting angles are examined. Disappointing!

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