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While I loved The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, I cannot think of a single good thing to say about The Buried Giant, which makes me even more bitter that Ishiguro won the Nobel that Murakami has still not gotten.
There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. Redemption doesn't come with resolution.
I naturally make small changes in my approach to life, so there wasn't really anything earth-shaking here for me. The core concept is solid, but the book felt like 90% filler.
I had a hard time getting into this book because each chapter felt like a short story involving new characters that only obliquely reference previous characters. By the time I was halfway through drawing a diagram of the characters' interconnectedness, I was in love with this book. By the end,I'd have happily had it continue to introduce and connect many others' stories. I've never read anything like it.
Fairly standard detective thriller, a genre that I'm surprised to see King dabbling in.