Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Man Booker Prize Winner, Literature, Household employees, Butlers
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
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Contemplative, prestige, meticulous and intimate.
We read them all: the case for is mara_k's. Marked below.
A whole life spent misreading the room, told by the man who did the misreading. Ishiguro's cruelty is that Stevens is likeable. I finished it on a train and could not look at anyone.
Perfect. There is no other word. A man tells you about his life and never once notices what he is telling you.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
Data provided by The New York Times.
On Open Library, 56 have read it and 317 want to.
“Tonight, I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury.”
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
18 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
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“Is this Kazuo Ishiguro's best work?”
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“Would The Remains of the Day hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1989?”
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“Is it the best man booker prize winner book of its decade?”
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