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A review by ashleigheva
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.0
[3.5/5]
the last 100 pages were great but man the 200+ pages before
it just took way too long to see where it was going
and i still don't know why it is but this book still feels kinda hollow to me
maybe because there is no explicit display of emotions of any character in particular? i guess there are moments of emotional tension but no such immersive moment i think
i think it would've been cool if the definitive boundary of klara's limitations would've been explored
because she clearly defies the idea of robots as having no emotions, and yet she also shows deficiencies in that department
so how much exactly is she programmed to know?
that being said, i do feel that it its partly in this novel's nature to be inherently vague
it's more of a brief exploration into a specific experience of a possible outcome of our world rather than a mass documentation
i wonder if this is the kind of book whereby people in the future look back on it and think "damn this book saw it coming" like people do with orwell's 1984
the last 100 pages were great but man the 200+ pages before
it just took way too long to see where it was going
and i still don't know why it is but this book still feels kinda hollow to me
maybe because there is no explicit display of emotions of any character in particular? i guess there are moments of emotional tension but no such immersive moment i think
i think it would've been cool if the definitive boundary of klara's limitations would've been explored
because she clearly defies the idea of robots as having no emotions, and yet she also shows deficiencies in that department
so how much exactly is she programmed to know?
that being said, i do feel that it its partly in this novel's nature to be inherently vague
it's more of a brief exploration into a specific experience of a possible outcome of our world rather than a mass documentation
i wonder if this is the kind of book whereby people in the future look back on it and think "damn this book saw it coming" like people do with orwell's 1984