Sean Barrs ’s review of The Buried Giant > Likes and Comments
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Yup, I gave it one star as well for the very same reason. The constant use of that word drove me up the freaking wall. In the end I abandoned the book. I still get irritated when I think about it. 😶
Ulrika wrote: "Yup, I gave it one star as well for the very same reason. The constant use of that word drove me up the freaking wall. In the end I abandoned the book. I still get irritated when I think about it. 😶"
I'm sorry to hear that, princess. (Sorry i had too!) 😂 Glad I'm not alone. I counted 4 on one page in there somewhere, honestly he must have used in 9 million times! 🙃
Loved the review, hilarious 😂
Between this one and the princess who bashed the enter key you've really made my day today Sean, thank you.
Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?
Samantha wickedshizuku wrote: "Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?"
I don't think Ishiguro was targeting one genre, but I categorize this one as literary fantasy. He wanted to explore a couple themes around forgetfulness and the way forgetting/remembering can change personal relationships as well as cultural memory, and the cost of peace.
Carlos wrote: "Loved the review, hilarious 😂
Between this one and the princess who bashed the enter key you've really made my day today Sean, thank you."
i try not to be too sarcastic but sometimes little things just annoy me XD
Samantha wickedshizuku wrote: "Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?"
Literary fantasy sounds about right for this, though this is clearly FAR from what the author does best.
Oh my, I hate that word so much. I wouldn't be able to finish a book that repeats it ad nauseam. Thanks for this hilarious review.
It's hilarious how you keep giving Ishiguro a chance 😂
Sara wrote: "It's hilarious how you keep giving Ishiguro a chance 😂"
2 of his books I love, The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans
I totally agree!!! I was so upset with the constant barrage of ‘princess’, I couldn’t finish the book!
But she actually is a princess, that’s one of the only clues of who Axl is and his relationship to her and Arthur. (and Tristan)
Just curious: Do you feel the same way when the word fuck is used at least once on each page of a novel?
I highlighted every use of the word Princess I could see as I was reading. There are at least 209 - though probably more accounting for my human error. The most on one page is 5 and multiple pages achieve this. The most in one paragraph is 3 which I think is a feat. The word Princess appears every on average every 1.5 pages and accounts for almost 0.3% of the word count of the overall novel. If you only accounted for the Axl/Beatrice scenes, those statistics go way up, but I'm not going to count that.
The princess malarkey isn't as bad on audio. I got to part 2 and couldn't take no more princess talk and gave up. I came back 2 years later and finished it on audio which was still tiresome and beyond boring but the narrator worked in the cutesy nickname very well.
I have to read this for a class! 2 chapters in and I am so frustrated with the dialogue!!! Princess , princess , princess
Agree but I give it 2 stars for the ending - but it was a struggle getting that far
It was more like The Buried Gnat. Absolute Poppycock, including the joke appearance of Sir Gawain as the White Knight direct from Lewis Carrol. Axl and Beatrice wander around for 345 pages, mostly in the rain, encountering one scene of brutal fighting after another ( given in great detail.)All the time Axl calls his aged wife "princess" as if they lived in a 21st century city.
The only bit that made sense was the ferryman, taken from the Greek idea of the one who rows souls across the Styx. Their son is buried on an island ( hurriedly provided in the last pages) which gives a hint of King Arthur. Just because a writer has some good books in the past does not guarantee every new offering is a success.
We never even find out if she was actually a princess
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Yup, I gave it one star as well for the very same reason. The constant use of that word drove me up the freaking wall. In the end I abandoned the book. I still get irritated when I think about it. 😶
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Ulrika wrote: "Yup, I gave it one star as well for the very same reason. The constant use of that word drove me up the freaking wall. In the end I abandoned the book. I still get irritated when I think about it. 😶"I'm sorry to hear that, princess. (Sorry i had too!) 😂 Glad I'm not alone. I counted 4 on one page in there somewhere, honestly he must have used in 9 million times! 🙃
Loved the review, hilarious 😂Between this one and the princess who bashed the enter key you've really made my day today Sean, thank you.
Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?
Samantha wickedshizuku wrote: "Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?"I don't think Ishiguro was targeting one genre, but I categorize this one as literary fantasy. He wanted to explore a couple themes around forgetfulness and the way forgetting/remembering can change personal relationships as well as cultural memory, and the cost of peace.
Carlos wrote: "Loved the review, hilarious 😂Between this one and the princess who bashed the enter key you've really made my day today Sean, thank you."
i try not to be too sarcastic but sometimes little things just annoy me XD
Samantha wickedshizuku wrote: "Your reviews are hilarious as always. I'm a bit confused at what genre the author was aiming for though, thoughts? Historical romance or anime fanfic with original characters?"Literary fantasy sounds about right for this, though this is clearly FAR from what the author does best.
Oh my, I hate that word so much. I wouldn't be able to finish a book that repeats it ad nauseam. Thanks for this hilarious review.
It's hilarious how you keep giving Ishiguro a chance 😂
Sara wrote: "It's hilarious how you keep giving Ishiguro a chance 😂"2 of his books I love, The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans
I totally agree!!! I was so upset with the constant barrage of ‘princess’, I couldn’t finish the book!
But she actually is a princess, that’s one of the only clues of who Axl is and his relationship to her and Arthur. (and Tristan)
Just curious: Do you feel the same way when the word fuck is used at least once on each page of a novel?
I highlighted every use of the word Princess I could see as I was reading. There are at least 209 - though probably more accounting for my human error. The most on one page is 5 and multiple pages achieve this. The most in one paragraph is 3 which I think is a feat. The word Princess appears every on average every 1.5 pages and accounts for almost 0.3% of the word count of the overall novel. If you only accounted for the Axl/Beatrice scenes, those statistics go way up, but I'm not going to count that.
The princess malarkey isn't as bad on audio. I got to part 2 and couldn't take no more princess talk and gave up. I came back 2 years later and finished it on audio which was still tiresome and beyond boring but the narrator worked in the cutesy nickname very well.
I have to read this for a class! 2 chapters in and I am so frustrated with the dialogue!!! Princess , princess , princess
Agree but I give it 2 stars for the ending - but it was a struggle getting that far
It was more like The Buried Gnat. Absolute Poppycock, including the joke appearance of Sir Gawain as the White Knight direct from Lewis Carrol. Axl and Beatrice wander around for 345 pages, mostly in the rain, encountering one scene of brutal fighting after another ( given in great detail.)All the time Axl calls his aged wife "princess" as if they lived in a 21st century city.The only bit that made sense was the ferryman, taken from the Greek idea of the one who rows souls across the Styx. Their son is buried on an island ( hurriedly provided in the last pages) which gives a hint of King Arthur. Just because a writer has some good books in the past does not guarantee every new offering is a success.
We never even find out if she was actually a princess