pixouls@bookwyrm.social reviewed Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Surprisingly underwhelming
3 stars
- I listened to this as an audiobook, my first checked out from Libby.
- I liked the narrator's voice and felt it was generally quite well to meet the range of voices for the characters.
- The book took too long to build up and the ending was too abstract and fell apart.
- I also generally didn't like or understand why the characters were selected with the traits they had.
- Some of the dialogue felt well played, while others felt jarring
- In the end, my favorite part is Klara's relationship with the sun, which goes for the most part unexplored with other characters. This book has vague environmentalist themes.
- many of the tropes that show up in this book I feel, have been better expressed in other works I've read.
- I think this book would be fine for a middle schooler as it goes generally without much complexity with its readability. Though …
- I listened to this as an audiobook, my first checked out from Libby.
- I liked the narrator's voice and felt it was generally quite well to meet the range of voices for the characters.
- The book took too long to build up and the ending was too abstract and fell apart.
- I also generally didn't like or understand why the characters were selected with the traits they had.
- Some of the dialogue felt well played, while others felt jarring
- In the end, my favorite part is Klara's relationship with the sun, which goes for the most part unexplored with other characters. This book has vague environmentalist themes.
- many of the tropes that show up in this book I feel, have been better expressed in other works I've read.
- I think this book would be fine for a middle schooler as it goes generally without much complexity with its readability. Though I do think it should be followed with journaling or a book discussion. I would be curious how this book could be used to engage youth about AI ethics.
