Talk:When We Were Orphans

message: he does not go to his grandother in england, he goes to his aunt.
That's right, it's his aunt. I'll change it. Skinnyweed 15:50, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

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message: The plot summary seems to be a fairly naive, almost like a straightforward reading of the novel. Although some concessions are made about the lack of clarity on some facts from Christoper's life (e.g. how exactly did he become such a famous detective?), it is not adequately conveyed that this is a case of an extremely unreliable narrator. From the first pages the reader is given clues that other people have perceptions of Christopher very different from his own. Almost every alleged fact from his narration -- that is to say, the whole book, since he narrates it -- is called into question. The narration gets stranger and stranger as the story progresses; the whole story about his parents is completely unclear. The whole section about his recovery of his childhood house, now inhabited by Chinese people, is downright surreal. Not mentioning the less straightforward reading of this novel is doing the book a disservice. This is definitely NOT a detective story! 201.231.81.83 (talk) 02:27, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary too naive and lacking depth 

message: None of the three references here are relevant to what they're footnoting. None of the three contains the quotation it follows and none is a substantial source.
Especially offensive is the Ishiguro quotation about it not being his best work, when the interview in reference 1 contains no such idea.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.67.151 (talk) 03:37, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You are wrong. All the quotes in the article appear in the sources in the exact same form. Christopher Connor (talk) 04:21, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant references 

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