Loved this book. How did others like it?
Definitive Ishiguro Power Ranking:
>Canonical masterpiece tier
The Unconsoled - S
>Beloved classic tier
The Remains of the Day - A+
The Buried Giant - A+
>Delightful intro tier
Cellists - A
Crooner - B
>Flawed but touching tier
Never Let Me Go - B+
>Novel experimentation tier
A Pale View of Hills - B
>Traditionally proficient tier
Artist of the Floating World - B-
>Flawed experimentation tier
When We Were Orphans - C
Nocturne - C
Come Rain or Come Shine - C-
Malvern Hills - C-
>>8048439
Correct, except replace The Unconsoled with RotD
>>8048439
Buried giant was my first ishiguro book i picked up from the bookstore at random after i entered military camp. I fell in love with this novel and thats coming from someone far from the avid reader. Im going to use this list to the fullest
>>8048437
So what's up with this book? I only know that fantasyfags didn't like it because the fantasy aspects are unoriginal.
>>8049414
it got rolled into the super stupid genre vs. literary fiction debate that was all the rage for "journalists" at guardian/new yorker/whatever, and everyone had a retarded comment on it.
thankfully the "genre debate" (kek) seems to have faded in prominence.
>>8049834
Yeah the Guardian shat all over him for not saying it's a fantasy novel. Fair dos though it's fantasy as hell but a solid read
>>8049414
>fantasyfans didn't like it because the fantasy aspects are unoriginal
Kek, I'd bet 2000 netbux that for most of them 'original' would mean blue-skinned orcs, elves with beards, and a Dark Lord who actually dresses in white.
>>8048437
I think it's gorgeous. It introduced me to feels I didn't even know, in a beautiful way.
>>8048439
>>Canonical masterpiece tier
>The Unconsoled - S
/lit/ baiting as an art form. Will not attract pinkos or /pol/ types, but will outrage anyone with the slightest knowledge of contemporary anglo-american /lit/.
>>8048437
Bretty good, but I like it more in retrospect rather than right after I read it. The"fight" with the dragowas a real anticlimactic blow to my side.
>>8049414
The setting may be fantasy but the prose, structure, and way it deals with thematic elements are literary.
