Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

1901 • 418 pages

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Average rating3.8

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March 23, 2021

sometimes charming, mostly boring... surprised i didn't DNF...

March 22, 2024

Ebook was an English translation from Japan to English. The person doing the translating does not know where verbs, pronouns etc are to placed in a sentence. Also commas, periods and quote marks were out of place!
The book was good leading up to an ending that stunk!!!

May 14, 2024
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September 18, 2022

Cried in the end.
5☆

August 20, 2022

I even wanted to have enjoyed it more because I love the idea of the AF and the implications and even the sun... but somehow after 60% or so it seemed another book - a circular and boring one actually.

November 8, 2021

I really loved this novel.

October 30, 2022
June 25, 2024

This book shows the growth of Ishiguro's writing and it shows the maturity that he has taken from his previous books, which are good by the way. A lot more depth and characterization occur in this book.

November 5, 2021

I just couldn't get into the story. I didn't feel much for anyone in it which made me uninterested in finding out what happens. Maybe that is to contribute to the robot perspective through which we learn the story. Shame, as I loved Never Let Me Go.

May 1, 2022
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December 6, 2021

3.5

The world did Klara dirty.

There's a quiet beauty to the book but nowhere near the heights of Ishiguro's masterpieces. Also, hate to nitpick, but her rudimentary understanding of heliocentrism would've surely made any attempts at mimicking humans severely limited.

April 21, 2022
September 29, 2023

The first half was pretty slow but wholesome, the sort of world through the AFs eyes was really cute but then the slow revelations of the world in the second half really got me

January 25, 2022

I love Ishiguro, but I personally thought his other books are better. This one felt quite ‘on the nose'. Nonetheless, he is extremely good at what he does.

May 6, 2021

Good for book club.

June 15, 2021
January 8, 2022

Gave it until the halfway point then abandoned it. Tried it out because it was on the Booker Longlist. I found the language hyper-simplistic. The frame was to provide insight on love and therefore the human condition, and by halfway the insights weren't hitting deep enough to keep my interest.

October 16, 2021
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