Title: What am I missing?
Review: A couple of years ago when this novel was first published in England, I purchased it at Heathrow Airport before getting on my flight home. Unfortunately, it was the only book I had on the plane. Otherwise, I could not have gotten past the first 20 pages. This is one of the worst novels I have ever read. The plot is implausible. The prose is strained. The characters are wooden. It insults the reader's intelligence over and over. Ever put a joke in the middle of a college term paper to test whether your professor would really read what you wrote? I wonder if Ishiguro let someone ghost-write this novel to test the integrity of book reviewers.
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