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metamorphesque · 1 year
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― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
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fuckyeahworldoftaika · 2 months
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luckydiorxoxo · 2 months
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Amy Adams in talks to star alongside Jenna Ortega in adaptation of ‘KLARA AND THE SUN.’
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Taika Waititi is set to direct.
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have you done your daily click
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sardinesinthegarden · 5 months
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My fave reads of 2023 in a collage zine :•)
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acillianproblem · 13 days
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I missed this news when it dropped last month BUT this book was phenomenal and I’m excited to see it brought to life. And I can’t wait to see Aran’s performance. Cillian and Yvonne must be so proud!
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lilaabard · 1 year
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Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn’t be continued. He told the Mother he’d searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.
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dearratroi · 6 months
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I think what really makes me sad after reading Klara and the Sun is when Manager, at the end, says Rosa didn’t have a great outcome with her family because then Klara says, “Everyone in the house was very kind to me [ . . . ] It was the best home for me. And Josie was the best teenager.” And it saddens me because she truly believes that, but as the reader knowing what I know and seeing what I saw, it’s just not true. Chrissie could hardly look at her more than half the time and Josie loved Klara… when it was convenient for her. And of course the Housekeeper thought of Klara as not much more than a vacuum.
And I understand Josie was sick, she was just a teenager who didn’t know whether she would live or die, but it’s heartbreaking because even after Josie gets strong again Klara is kind of passively kicked out of Josie’s room and moves into the Utility Room (which I’m pretty sure is just an attic) and Josie prepares for college, invites friends to sleep over, and moves on from Klara like she’s a toy Josie grew out of.
Klara definitely had it better than other AFs like Rosa and the boy AF she saw across the street from the store, but she didn’t really have it good, either. Chrissie defended Klara against Mr Capaldi that she should have her ‘slow fade’ but then she ended up fading on her own in a scrap yard. She doesn’t even get to fade amongst family, just tossed away like a malfunctioning microwave. And it’s so fucking sad because Klara was loved, but not like a human family member would ever have been, and it’s sadder because Klara believed she was in the best home only because she never knew better.
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thenegoteator · 8 months
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every day I wake up and I think about Klara and the Sun. every day I go to bed and I think about Klara and the Sun.
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achurni · 2 months
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Ohhh interesting
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maryoliverdotcom · 7 months
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this book is fucking me up
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tapewyrm-talks · 6 months
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I just finished reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishuguro, I am in fucking Shambles.
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fuckyeahworldoftaika · 5 months
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0-k-4 · 5 months
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you know Klara and the Sun is so good because you finish the book and every character is happy and tells you everything turned out for the best and you are still fuming
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death-vs-romance · 9 months
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klara :’(
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abookisafriend · 5 months
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klara and the sun, by kazuo ishiguro: four out of five positronic brains
this is a short novel, easy to read, suited for both young adult and adult readers. you will find themes of friendship, family relationships, identity, and what i would call class struggle, but in a sort of individualized way.
the science fictional touches are light -- ishiguro is not always a scifi author, but he handles them fairly well. we see little of the world, so it is still believable that we are visiting the world of the future, even though little seems to have changed. it's nice to see that genre fiction and literary fiction can still combine. i wonder what it was that inspired ishiguro to explore scifi.
the main character of the novel is klara, an "artificial friend" who serves as the pov character. we see the world only through her limited lens, starting from the store where she watches the world through the shop window and slowly labors to understand that world, sometimes reaching … idiosyncratic conclusions. she is an a.i. with a robotic body, but she has emotions, introspection, preferences, … despite this, she is someone's property. this is the sort of novel that addresses things like this not theatrically, as star trek does, where they had a special episode ("the measure of a man") where they literally staged a trial to ascertain whether the android lieutenant data counted as a person, but through events; there's never a scene where someone says "wow, it's so unfair that you can be bought and sold as a piece of hardware," but the story follows the life of klara to show you what this situation means. it's not a didactic story, it's a demonstrative story. i recommend it for anyone who wants a clear, accessible novel that explores intimate questions about relationships and technology.
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