Kevin Maschke

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Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, “Klara and the Sun”, is a thought-provoking exploration of a world where Artificial Intelligence is commonplace. The protagonist, Klara, is an Artificial Friend (AF) created to provide companionship to humans. Through Klara's point of view, the novel examines the complexities of love, loss, connection and mortality. It explores the boundaries between human and AI, and delves into themes of religion and a higher power whom Klara speaks to and believes influences her path.

Overall, Klara and the Sun is an absolutely beautiful, powerful and unforgettable novel. I highly recommend it and I'm sure it won't be the last of Ishiguro's novels I read!

Honestly it got me form start to finish. I was not able to stop reading it. One of my favourite books of 2015!

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It's great! I had a hard time putting down the book at any given moment!

Joe Abercrombie is one of my favourite authors. I thoroughly enjoyed the First Law trilogy and The Shattered Sea trilogy when I read them a couple of years ago. And reading A Little Hatred made me feel sorry for not having read the three standalone books set in the same world of the First Law.

This book introduces a whole new cast, but we still hear a lot about characters from the original trilogy and apart form the characters, there's other big new changes happening which affect the world, like the modernisation of the industry, while at the same time big battles are being fought in the north with swords and axes.

I think that All in all this book is setting the scene for what's to come in the following books. It'll get worse, which means it'll get better for us readers.

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It's been a long time since I read the Knightsbridge Series, and The Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time favourite books ever. I love Follets style and storytelling. I know these books are fiction, but when reading them it just all seems real to me. I think that's what makes his books so good.

The Evening and the Morning is, just like the rest of the books in this series, marvelous. But yes, I must say, it's not as good as The Pillars of the Earth. I loved every page, but I somehow just felt it missed something.

I'd highly recommend it to anyone who likes historical fiction, and to anyone who's read the other books in the series.

Another great and must-read classic. Absolutely enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to anyone.
It's interesting to read it and think about what I would do if I was in the situation of being invisible, or what other people would do. I honestly think that most people, if not everyone, would do some evil. Being invisible does just make being evil easier, and I'm pretty sure that everyone at some point thinks or has thought about doing something bad, something evil, but hasn't done it just because of the possible consequences they'd have to face if caught.