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Review title: ishiguro at his best? what a disappointment
Product review: i'm quite amazed at the many good reviews this book has received. Finishing this book is like having a nice discussion with a friend who, at the end of the hour, tells you he's dosed your tea with LSD. Is he serious? Why would he possibly do such a thing? This writing is nicely crafted and subtle, the narrative shifts easily between London and flashbacks to postwar Nagasaki, and beautifully skates along the rim of cultural chasm. But the `surprise twist ending' is silly, amateurish; like mixing coca cola and Bordeaux, the climactic melange of genre falls on its face. For a beautiful cross cultural novel that carries itself through from beginning to end, skip "pale view' and go straight to `the samarai's garden'.
