Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 28, 2024 1:51:22 GMT
Never Let Me Go (2005)
10/10
Had long avoided this guy due to his Japanese name. ffs.
Another Murakami plodder I dopily assumed...
MORAN.
I now need to read everything by this motherfucking grandmaster of his medium. He dont wheel out the flashy vocab or $20 words or lustrous scene setting but fuck all that, his writing is completely unstoppable. WFT happens neeeeeeeexxt.
LOL@ all of Japan pining and pleading and pressuring for Murakami to win the Nobel Prize every year, it must KILL them that this guy, with his totally Japanese name, just saunters in and picks up the Nobel in Lit in 2017. And sorry Japan but he is very English. In this novel he somehow perfectly assumes the catty, cruel and repressed voices of - FFS - little English children.
Spoiler:
There aint no seppo style happy endings here. When the kids discover the boat you just know a seppo author would take that as a cue to break out the bunting and underwood out a heroic hollywood escape and a happily ever after ending.
Brits dont do that.
The kids quietly turn and traipse back home to donate their organs and quietly "complete" which means die ffs.
The End
10/10
Had long avoided this guy due to his Japanese name. ffs.
Another Murakami plodder I dopily assumed...
MORAN.
I now need to read everything by this motherfucking grandmaster of his medium. He dont wheel out the flashy vocab or $20 words or lustrous scene setting but fuck all that, his writing is completely unstoppable. WFT happens neeeeeeeexxt.
LOL@ all of Japan pining and pleading and pressuring for Murakami to win the Nobel Prize every year, it must KILL them that this guy, with his totally Japanese name, just saunters in and picks up the Nobel in Lit in 2017. And sorry Japan but he is very English. In this novel he somehow perfectly assumes the catty, cruel and repressed voices of - FFS - little English children.
Spoiler:
There aint no seppo style happy endings here. When the kids discover the boat you just know a seppo author would take that as a cue to break out the bunting and underwood out a heroic hollywood escape and a happily ever after ending.
Brits dont do that.
The kids quietly turn and traipse back home to donate their organs and quietly "complete" which means die ffs.
The End
