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Stewart said:
Aw! I really liked it when I read it last year.
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I didn't really not like it, I was just disappointed after the "oh you need to read this, if it's the only book you read this year" kind of comments I'd heard about it.

I didn't really sympathise with any of the three of them throughout until the end, when I burst into tears at a completely un-emotional bit, and felt really stupid for it. After I'd felt so heartless throughout, too.

Stewart said:
I think they are two different types of narrator despite the trademark Ishiguro resignation at the end. It was written somewhere that TROTD was the closer to his "confusion trilogy" and NLMG was probably the closer to his "bewilderment" trilogy. So, where Stevens is looking back and deceiving himself that he's been wrong until he finally accepts it, Kathy has always accepted it but has never understood her circumstances.
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Yes, you're right. I think it's the whole apathy thing, I just hated, with NLMG. Still, I think the whole NLMG story could have been written better, somehow.
 
That's one I've not read. Read Shade's summary in the Kazuo Ishiguro thread.



As for purchases, some more for me:

Tales Of Protection, Erik Fosnes Hansen
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Man In The High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall
The Forsyte Saga: Volume II, John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga: Volume I, John Galsworthy
The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat
 
Hmm, I was under the impression it was released today. And I don't remember seeing it in shops before then, otherwise I'd have lifted my embargo earlier.

Doesn't matter, anyway, as I read it last year and it was just to complete the six Ishiguro novels on my shelf.
 
Just checked and my copy's a book club paperback print. Those where the print quality is poor and they charge twice as much :rolleyes:

So when do we get to see a pic of all these collections Stewart ;) ;)
(subtle hint... pictures thread ;) ) :D
 
I just bought

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
And a copy of the Fellowship of the Ring to replace the one I lost.:eek:
 
UPS/Amazon just delivered:

Glory
Mary
Invitation To A Beheading Vladimir Nabokov :rolleyes:
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Tolstoy No, I've never read it! :eek:
and I broke down and bought:
Oryx and Crake by Atwood /sigh/

I have no clue as to how many are in my TBR pile, and I don't wanna!!
 
I really need to stop buying books but I just can't stop myself:eek:

I bought another book today called Lord of the Isles by David Drake
I bought it because it was only 3 bucks:D
 
I went to the bookstore for some fantasy authors I wanted to try out. We have a bad selection, but I managed to get:
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Rhapsody - Elizabeth Haydon
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
The Darkness that Comes Before - Scott Bakker
 
Just bought Rage by Jonathan Kellerman
got to stop buying books:eek:
got to stop buying books:eek:
got to stop buying books:eek:

Or should I:confused:
 
I made a trek to the second-hand book store today....
In hardback @ 1.75 US dollars each:

Shelley II, The Middle of My Century (autobio)
Trace.....by Patricia Cornwell
French Women Don't Get Fat.....by Mireille Guiliano (no I don't know why, except the price :rolleyes:
Body of Lies
.....by Iris Johansen

trade paperbacks:
Damascus Gate...by Robert Stone
The Last of the Mohicans...by James Fenimore Cooper can't find my copy :eek:
Atonement...by Ian McEwan
The Time Traveler's Wife...by Audrey Niffenegger

and by Amazon/UPS:
Look at the Harlequins!...by Vladimir Nabokov

You know the 2nd hand book store didn't even have ONE Nabokov!!! Horrors!:eek:

Oh, and I forgot....Daisy Miller...by Henry james
 
pontalba said:
I made a trek to the second-hand book store today....
In hardback @ 1.75 US dollars each:

Shelley II, The Middle of My Century (autobio)
Trace.....by Patricia Cornwell
French Women Don't Get Fat.....by Mireille Guiliano (no I don't know why, except the price :rolleyes:
Body of Lies
.....by Iris Johansen

trade paperbacks:
Damascus Gate...by Robert Stone
The Last of the Mohicans...by James Fenimore Cooper can't find my copy :eek:
Atonement...by Ian McEwan
The Time Traveler's Wife...by Audrey Niffenegger

and by Amazon/UPS:
Look at the Harlequins!...by Vladimir Nabokov

You know the 2nd hand book store didn't even have ONE Nabokov!!! Horrors!:eek:

Oh, and I forgot....Daisy Miller...by Henry james
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I just bought Atonement today too!! :eek: :eek:

But Pontalba, it's shocking that they had no Nabokov :eek: :eek:

Isn't there another one now called Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat or something, or is that a mick-take?! :confused:
 
Steffee I've got his Saturday started, and I really like his writing, so when I saw this one I had to get it! As far as the other, who knows? I have not seen anything like that. Yet.

A long time ago, they had a scruffy copy of "Pale Fire" but last September I managed to buy a nice hardback copy at the Library Sale. There is one every third weekend!!! yay! Heh, heh, heh....
 
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