I’m a big time Ishiguro fan and can’t for the life of me understand why his books are rated so low on Goodreads?

My hunch is that he doesn’t always go for the happy endings, not always a perfect resolution, and can leave someone unsettled but the books themselves are great works of literary art. It won’t end like some superhero movie with the good guys saving the world from the bad guys

But am I missing something?

Also no spoilers on any of his books!

  • Fred_sarah@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For “Never let me go” I would say it’s because it’s marketed as some kind of twist story when that’s not the point of the story. While we do get a twist we can work out the major part of it well ahead. The point of the story was to feel for the characters hearing about the relationships among them.

    So someone picking this up for a gripping horror novel with a twist end would be bitterly disappointed. As one reviewer put it “…he rambled on for 100s of pages” when that’s all all the books I read do.

    I blame the two line reviewing social media bookfluencers for false marketing.