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!

  • -Just-Another-Human@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I read The Buried Giant, my first and only of his reads. I found his characters dull, and more importantly, very repetitive. The protagonist ended ever sentence when talking to his wife with the same word of endearment 9 times out of 10 (smething like “only a little bit left to walk, Darling”. It drove me INSANE. Every time he addresses her (which constitutes the bulk of the text as it’s based around the 2 of them on a walking journey) he says " yadda, yadda, yadda, Darling" The plot was interesting, but man, I could not get over his dialogue. Really wanted to like the book more than I did.