Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

In September & October we will be reading The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro for our Sci-Fi & Fantasy category - who's in?

I’ll be reading this but as I’ve just started another long book (Life A User's Manual), it will probably be towards the end of September

The Unconsoled was the first Ishiguro book I read, several years ago. It was very confusing and odd, and I was a bit surprised that it was included on the Guardian list

This - along with Malone Dies - is on my October Reads list (once I get through Tartt's "The Secret History".

I came really close to setting this down in the first few chapters but went on to finish. I have this on my favorites shelf now--An Artist of the Floating World is the only one of his I like more. (even more than Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go) But I don't know how broad the appeal for this book would be--like Jamie says, it can be confusing and odd, but at the end, I thought it was a novel way of dealing with grief. That's what I took away from it at least

I’ve just finished this and I really enjoyed it, especially the way time and place was movable so things kept changing like in a dream.

Ishiguro seems to have recurring themes in his novel - the unreliability of memory, what it means to be an artist, people missing the opportunity to say the right thing - and filter them through different settings and genres of novel. I liked this journey a lot, even though it could be frustrating too.

I just started this today (better late than never, eh?!)
enjoying it so far...

ok so I got to half way in this, I've got the idea, but I don't want to spend any more of my time reading the latter half.
my theory on this is that Ishiguro was inspired by Kafka's The Castle finishing in mid-sentence i.e. we don't know how long that book would've been - so he decided to write one twice as long; The Trial is about trying to get out of something, The Castle about trying to get in , so he thought he'd write an entire book about someone who was just in a situation.