The Buried Giant

[kev67]

I finished The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro a couple days ago. Has anyone else read it? What did you think? Not exactly like The Hobbit, was it.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I finished The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro a couple days ago. Has anyone else read it? What did you think? Not exactly like The Hobbit, was it.

I started listening to the audiobook, because I'd love "Remains of the Day" so much, but couldn't get into it for some reason.

[Methinks]

I finished The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro a couple days ago. Has anyone else read it? What did you think? Not exactly like The Hobbit, was it.

Ha! Not exactly The Hobbit is right. But like most of Ishiguro's books, an highly readable story.

[kev67]

The book divides opinion. There's a YouTube book reviewer I often watch who really slated it, although she has like other books of his. Another newspaper reviewer called it a slog. I was puzzled by it, and it took me a while to get into it. I thought some of the dialogue was rather stilted and unnatural. However, I liked the Arthurian setting. It was a disturbing and melancholic book.

[mal4mac]

I just finished this a few days ago and didn't like it. It was a totally humourless slog, with a "hardly anything happens" plot. I was very disappointed because An Artist of the Floating World is one of my favourite novels, and I also liked Remains of the Day and Never Let me Go.

[kev67]

I just finished this a few days ago and didn't like it. It was a totally humourless slog, with a "hardly anything happens" plot. I was very disappointed because An Artist of the Floating World is one of my favourite novels, and I also liked Remains of the Day and Never Let me Go.

Hardly anything happens? That is a bit unfair.

[PeachSodaLover]

It sounded Russian. I guess I was having a Dostoevsky flashback but of course that wasnt it.