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An unusual book in which you are never quite sure what is happening and things aren't really explained. You are left to work things out with hints and context, much like Klara is.
I had an idea about the 'portrait' early on, which proved to be correct, though I am glad it wasn't fully realised. There seemed to be a bit of building up to nothing and the end comes quickly, leaving more questions than answers. ...more
I had an idea about the 'portrait' early on, which proved to be correct, though I am glad it wasn't fully realised. There seemed to be a bit of building up to nothing and the end comes quickly, leaving more questions than answers. ...more
This was interesting to read and discuss with my bookclub, but I wanted more about the world. I would recommend to people specifically interested in the genre and AI.
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There are a lot of complex ideas and themes in this book, which I totally expect from Ishiguro. We could discuss what it means to be human, religion, eugenics, or obsolescence. But here’s the thing - I didn’t care enough about any character in this novel to really want to do that. I found Klara to be utterly boring, Josie to be shallow and vapid, and her mother disengaged.
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There are a lot of complex ideas and themes in this book, which I totally expect from Ishiguro. We could discuss what it means to be human, religion, eugenics, or obsolescence. But here’s the thing - I didn’t care enough about any character in this novel to really want to do that. I found Klara to be utterly boring, Josie to be shallow and vapid, and her mother disengaged.
The thing I thought was the most interesting was Klara’s anthrop ...more
??? Not sure what I think. Definitely made me feel like Never Let Me Go, a little, but was missing some of the gut-punch power and emotion of the earlier book. Almost too click-click well-managed and cerebral, not human enough. (And when one of the themes is “what is a human?” then, well.)
ETA: I also read this entire book dreading the moment where I’d feel like Ishiguro copied Anderson’s _Feed_ but the reveal was even more disappointing and _Feed_ was better.
ETA: I also read this entire book dreading the moment where I’d feel like Ishiguro copied Anderson’s _Feed_ but the reveal was even more disappointing and _Feed_ was better.
Much like Never Let Me Go, I’m left with many conflicting Feelings upon completion, and I’m not quite sure how to sort them.
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