629 reviews for:

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.54 AVERAGE

beauwilcox11's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

pyuk's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

holobiont42's review against another edition

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This book feels like a dream. Everything goes wrong, you (the main character) make all the wrong choices and things keep happening while you watch, powerless, both bystander and protagonist, while things slowly but constantly spin out of control. All the characters are annoying, the situations are annoying, the protagonist is annoying and you just keep asking why and where and how things went wrong and wasn't there a better way to do things than this nonsense?????

I don't know if I liked it but I couldn't put it down regardless which is saying something.

annacah's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

sof00's review against another edition

3.5

challenging mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

technomage's review against another edition

3.0

challenging mysterious medium-paced

jepusto's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

noillon_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

swimmeryu's review against another edition

4.5

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Very Kafkaesque and frustrating at times. Probably the first time I felt Ishiguro being malicious.
Simply brilliant.

mybooks_maryreads's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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Too experimental for my tastes.