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Gah, I never thought a book of only 200 pages could bore me to tears. The narrative didn't impress me and the plot was pointless. I'm interested to see how I'm going to make up something reasonable for the essay I have to write. ...more
Gah, I never thought a book of only 200 pages could bore me to tears. The narrative didn't impress me and the plot was pointless. I'm interested to see how I'm going to make up something reasonable for the essay I have to write. ...more
Having spent my formative years in Japan, Ishiguro's work is an unusual form of intellectual comfort food for me - he captures beautifully the sometimes frustrating but deeply realistic obliqueness that typifies Japanese life, and I always feel a sense of home in that. And I know I've said this a thousand times before, but no one better captures how we put blinkers on ourselves to avoid seeing our worst traits than Ishiguro.
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I really enjoyed this. Ishiguro writes so subtlely---it's such a beautiful thing to watch his stories unfold.
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