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.
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.