Book · 2009 · Fiction
The Remains of the Day
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And the remains of the day yes which is truly a perfect novel if ever there was one so artistically drawn so emotional.
What they say about it
- Called a favorite book“absolute favorite books in the world”2
The best things said about it
The Remains of the Day of course is a kind of very quiet novel about an English butler.
He wrote remains of the day he wrote never let me go and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the world.
Tommy Vietor Pod Save America · Apr 2020 He's very got this very spare elliptical idiosyncratic style where you have this first person narrator like the butler in Remains of the Day or or the girl in uh Never Let Me Go which is a boarding school in England.
I did want to mention actually a book that I had read in print a long time ago probably a couple of decades ago actually and now I'm listening to in audiobook form and it's The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
7 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is a masterclass in psychological fiction, following an aging English butler named Stevens as he reflects on his career of dedicated service and his unrequited love amid the shifting political landscape of post-World War II Britain. The novel has earned profound admiration from numerous literary figures and podcast guests. On The Book Review, John Williams shared that he read the book shortly after Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize and enjoyed it deeply. Alexander Alter highlighted Ishiguro's spare and elliptical first-person narrative style, comparing Stevens to other memorable narrators created by the author. Gilbert Cruz and Rika Jones praised the novel as a quietly powerful and emotionally resonant work of art, with Jones explicitly naming it her absolute favorite by the author. Jen Arai discussed revisiting the story in audiobook format decades after her initial print reading, continuing to find deep appreciation for the narrative. Additionally, author Will Storr discussed the novel extensively on How I Write, analyzing Stevens as a prime literary example of a character driven by a strict theory of control. Across these platforms, commentators continually lauded the novel's emotional precision and structural perfection.
Every mention
John Williams given that he's a shuro I read Remains of the Day few years after that and really really liked it and I mig… 1
“given that he's a shuro I read Remains of the Day few years after that and really really liked it and I might read more by him”
Rika Jones and the remains of the day yes which is truly a perfect novel if ever there was one so artistically drawn s… 2
“and the remains of the day yes which is truly a perfect novel if ever there was one so artistically drawn so emotional”
“number one I have to say is Remains of the Day”
Will Storr And so in the science of storytelling, the book I've written about all this, I I I I go in detail at the bo… 2
“And so in the science of storytelling, the book I've written about all this, I I I I go in detail at the book The Remains of the Day by Kazu Ishiguru, you know, hugely respected literary author.”
“I mean so you know another one again is is Scrooge. I mean, nobody calls Scrooge a simplistic character, right? But but but he is there as a kind of test of this very interesting idea about greed and selfishness.”
Alexandra Alter he's very got this very spare elliptical idiosyncratic style where you have this first person narrator like… 1
“he's very got this very spare elliptical idiosyncratic style where you have this first person narrator like the butler in Remains of the Day or or the girl in uh Never Let Me Go which is a boarding school in England”
Gilbert Cruz The Remains of the Day of course is a kind of very quiet novel about an English butler 1
“The Remains of the Day of course is a kind of very quiet novel about an English butler”
Jennifer Szalai I I did want to mention actually a book that I had read in print a long time ago probably a couple of decad… 1
“I I did want to mention actually a book that I had read in print a long time ago probably a couple of decades ago actually and now I'm listening to in audiobook form and it's the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro”
Tommy Vietor he wrote remains of the day he wrote never let me go and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the… 1
“he wrote remains of the day he wrote never let me go and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the world”
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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“kazuo ishiguro the British novelist who has made the list a couple of times he's uh the author of the remains of the day”
“this is not what you expect from the author of remains of the day”
“you were last on in March where you talked a little bit about the remains of the day by issu Guru”
“I think that Lauren you and I are both super fans which I feel like is an understatement of remains of the day”
“I'm gonna keep reading him because I I have I haven't read the remains of the day which obviously I think I should read”
“it's you know think uh Stevens from Remains of the Day the book”