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soysaucesausage t1_j9nsp6o wrote

This book has the most perfect control of voice I have ever read. It's so exquisitely real that they are obsessed with all these random schoolyard anecdotes while the heinous evil being done to them is just completely accepted as a presupposition of their existence.

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FunPark0 t1_j9okm7n wrote

This is just Ishiguro in general. He is the absolute master of restraint.

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woke_pug t1_j9pek2j wrote

Yes!! At first I was like "How can she spend all her time worrying about her friendships when she lives in a dystopia?" and then I was like holy shit that is me and everyone else...whoaa...

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