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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: YoungGrassHopper on 14 Sep 2005, 11:54
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I highly recommend it. If you're new to Ishiguro, check out "A Pale View of Hills" and "When we were Orphans" too.
that is all.
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Tell me something about these books or the author to make me want to read them.
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Pale View of Hills was rather good- interesting read. I haven't checked out anything else, though... I'll have to look into it. Whats the basic idea behind it?
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like all of ishiguro's novels, pale view being probably the most direct, ths story is tangled, and you peel away layers to get to the heart of it...(like "remains of the day") ...what the character says/thinks/feels is just a facade, the actual story takes place between the lines. Never let you go expands on that style even more by adding a touch of surreal abstract environment...like writing about a sensory image without actually writing it.
It's a really interesting read....not if you're a fan of the quick payoff, action filled thriller, but it is like a painting being painted, I guess...you slowly watch meaningless colors and lines and forms coalesce into a picture.
Ishiguro is probably one of the best writers, period, of the last few decades. He's the closest thing I can think of to modern "classic literature". The density and quality of the work is really cool.
I'll get off my book geek soapbox now.
don't get the wrong impression. The last book/novel/comic I bought was "the league of extraordinary gentlemen" so I'm not a book snob:) Just thought that Ishiguro's book was something different people might like if they give it a chance.
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THIS BOOK FUCKED ME UP REAL BAD
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Oh well now I'll have to read it.
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you should. it's so tenderly written... I found it heart-breakingly sad. the movie just came out, actually.
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The film is a Mark Romanek joint, too bad it was sort of slept on.