A review by anthofer
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

2.0

100 pages in and had to bail. The whole perspective-switching thing doesn't make any sense; it's not "dreamlike" unless you're schizophrenic. Everything is flattened and grey, and all of that is fine if you're Kafka and writing The Castle, because that book is funny and often slapstick, but Ishiguro is not funny. This really reminded me of the Murakami I've read, which isn't much, because I don't like his faux-Kafka schtick either. If something's going to follow dream logic, the dream's got to be actually interesting! Kafka was always interesting!