Is this worth picking up? Saw it at a second hand shop for 2 dollars and was wondering if it is worth the time
Yeah, it's good.
sure, ishiguro in general is great, you should check out everything he wrote imo
Yeah, pretty great read. I prefer Remains tho
he's one of the greatest living writers, i can't believe how underrated he is on /lit/, maybe he isn't american enough.
Op here, sounds good ill pick it up
>>7628234
I have never seen anything bad said about him people love Remains here especially.
>>7628234
not post modern enough, not stylistic enough, pretty traditional writer with p. trad. themes
>>7628276
true
not exactly meme fodder
the most uninteresting book i've read in such a long time. genre fiction on par with cormac's The Road, great author doing a really shitty book-club tier work. The prose, dialogue and characters are nothing unique. Starts like any other dystopian novel where things seem pretty normal at first but words are used a little strangely like "the gallery" in this novel, eventually the dystopian shit gets revealed, there's a big reveal at the end like every dystopian novel always has and then that's it. the only good part was the sparseness and that gets ruined with a huge resolve.
shit-tier book that undergrad freshman think is enlightening
>>7628492
the buried giant is a much better attempt at bridging literary fiction and genre fiction (assuming it needs to be bridged, which is a diff conversation) in a sensible way
>>7628219
This book made me extremely sad, 7/10 would recommend
