This is so boring. Why does it have such a high rating? I agree that it has beautiful language, and I certainly don't need to be hit over the head with action. But wading through dronings of a butler about dignity and so on. Ugh!
What a great story! Told from the point of view of Stevens, a very proper British butler, this novel is a beautiful and sad piece about choices and regret. Definitely provides food for thought on how to live so we can all look forward to what remains of our day.
This is a lovely book. It manages to be moving and melancholy without actually being depressing. In fact it ends on a hopeful, optimistic note; looking to the future after the rest of the book has been spent surveying the past. Mr Stevens is the Butler at Darlington Hall, which was in the hands of L...
Very sad book. It's a serious, thoughtful piece of work, for sure, and I apologize for my proclivity towards bathos which compels me to summarize the book thus:Stevens (in Dalek voice): Duty and dignity are the most important. What is this thing called banter? Explain! Explain!(His father dies, and ...
outstanding and instant classic, Kazuo Ishiguro's deceptively-simple work captures the declining years of a butler to an English great house, as he is full of recrimination and regret, undertaking a car journey in which he finds misunderstanding, perspective, and a lifetime of memories unreeling.my ...
Goodreads has 42,945 ratings of this book, and 2,892 reviews. What can I possibly say that hasn’t been said already, and considerably better than any combination of words I can come up with? Nothing at all, probably, but I’m going to have a bash anyway.I first read this many years ago, and regarded ...
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