curiouser_and_curiouser 's review for:

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

5.0

funny mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I ADORE (to the nth power) this stupendous nightmare of a book! Possibly my favorite book ever. Ishiguro captured the grammar of dreaming so perfectly, that I couldn’t tell the difference between reading and dreaming. The way he strings together these over-the-top characters and bizarre events made me feel like I was sleepwalking through the pages. The absurd (and hilarious) actions performed by the characters, the long monologues of seemingly no importance, the lapses in memory, the surreal landscapes and props, the bending of time and space, the constant redirection and re-redirection of our attention to the never ending list of tasks of utmost importance only to be interrupted by even more tasks causing the characters and reader incredible frustration - PERFECTION!