Play Book Tag discussion

I can understand your response. For me, Ishiguro is an acquired taste. There's always more underneath than there is on the surface and I have to be in the right place to work at the excavation.

I read this one after seeing the movie. I don't think I actually understood either at the time.

The robot remark is great, considering this author also wrote Klara and the Sun. And his other books are all somewhat the same. The narrators are unreliable or unaware or uninformed. Personally, I love that but they're not exactly page turners or emotionally expressive.

I loved this book - it's one of my all-time favorites. I do not think one reads Ishiguro for the plot or the "action" (of which there is very little in almost all of his books - I've read most of them), but rather, for his insights into the human condition or comments on society or world issues (that are embedded in the narrative). I can see that anyone looking for a plot will probably be disappointed. Personally, I enjoy more character-driven books, so his writing is right up my alley.

Agree with everyone here.

I read this shortly after it was published here with the nifty new prize winner seal on the cover. At that time everything I was reading and had been reading were plot and action driven mysteries, thrillers, romances. It was quite an adjustment and the stillness of it should have put me off. Yet something kept me going. By the end I was caught up by what Ishiguro was showing me. That book has stayed with me, and it might do the same for you.