Ishiguro's writing has a dreamy quality. The Unconsoled takes this to the next level by putting you in a dream for 600 pages. It feels like the summation of a lifetime of work, but in fact it's one of his earliest.
Pro tip: if you're confused, just keep reading. Like a dream, the individual details don't make sense, but the emotions and themes still show through.
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nuclearshill 24d ago#6391053
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I never read that one, from saramago I have only read Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
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Obregon 24d ago#6391475
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i don't think the people who speak that language know how to write in it
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!bookworms
Sad!
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It's #64
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It should have come before NLMG
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Is NLMG a mediocre book? The movie did make me cry
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It's a good book, just not Ishiguro's strongest and I happen to like Remains of the Day more
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Talking about Ishiguro's strongest, where is The Unconsoled?
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Red-pill me on The Unconsoled, I'm on a Jap author streak
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Ishiguro's writing has a dreamy quality. The Unconsoled takes this to the next level by putting you in a dream for 600 pages. It feels like the summation of a lifetime of work, but in fact it's one of his earliest.
Pro tip: if you're confused, just keep reading. Like a dream, the individual details don't make sense, but the emotions and themes still show through.
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And yes 1984 and LOTR are midwit books
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The books are alright, the people who talk about them are not.
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The books are absolutely fine and you'd see it too if you unclutched your pearls for a second
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Same with Dune, I loved the first Dune
Worth it?
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I never read that one, from saramago I have only read Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
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Fourth Dune is by far the best Dune. It actually has interesting ideas and not just "cool desert people are exotic and cool".
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Paul isn't a good character. He's basically a Christ like figure that makes you go "oh good, a Christ like figure" but doesn't really do very much.
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1984 Numero Uno
Curbstomp the peak redditor who made it
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“um” uno is spanish
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Portuguese is an elaborate performance art by Russians speaking Spanish
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Speak Spanish, incel
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Yo hablo y vos?
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Idk what you're saying I don't speak Spanish
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I started reading book number 78 @Communist_spez
And here is a kitten 4 u
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Portugal has fallen
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I'm too lazy to go through the whole list, but I am curious how many of them where written in Portuguese
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Ensaio sobre a cegueira was the highest rated Pt language book on that list. Most were international literature (russian, english, german, spanish)
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i don't think the people who speak that language know how to write in it
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looks like the rdrama bookclub
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What books do you read? Just marxist theory? Although Lenin is fun to read.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/index.htm
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1984 became to mainstream
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These books are so mid
O livro é decente, mas nem perto de ser o melhor livro brasileiro
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Impressão minha ou a literatura brasileira é bem fraca em comparação aos nossos vizinhos de fala hispânica?
Melhor do que 1984
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Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/1comlc1/top_100_rlivrosportugal_2024/:
undelete.pullpush.io
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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