What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
138
pages
Longest Book
671
pages
Average book length in
2023
362
pages
Most Shelved
4,190,374
people
also shelved
Least Shelved
2,680
people
also shelved
David’s
average rating for
2023
3.8
3.8
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.45
average
David’s first review of the year
really liked it
This book is still rambling in my head. There is something about it. It took on a life as you continued to read.
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Not my review below (credit to fran, but wanted to repost it).
"Memory has a way of growing things, of improving them. The hardships get harder, the good times get better and the whole damn arc of a life takes on a mystic glow that only memory can give it." "...when you get as old as me...people want to hear your whole life story... ...more
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Not my review below (credit to fran, but wanted to repost it).
"Memory has a way of growing things, of improving them. The hardships get harder, the good times get better and the whole damn arc of a life takes on a mystic glow that only memory can give it." "...when you get as old as me...people want to hear your whole life story... ...more
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it was amazing
it was amazing
David’s last review of the year
it was ok
This book just didn't do it for me. It was my first Ishiguro and I spent the whole book struggling through it. The narrator, Klara, was stiff and reading her perspective for the full 350 pages was brutal in my opinion. It would have at least made the book slightly more readable to switch to Josie, Rick, or the mother.
None of the science fiction stuff worked for me, the AF (artificial friend) concept was weird, the "fascist communities" for non-e ...more
None of the science fiction stuff worked for me, the AF (artificial friend) concept was weird, the "fascist communities" for non-e ...more
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