A moving, suspenseful literary-science fiction tale of innocence, regret and lost love. Not as disturbing as some futuristic literary fiction such as Oryx and Crake or The Handmaids Tale but I loved the way Ishiguro unwinds the narrative slowly, detail building upon detail until the whole truth is l...
Never Let Me Go was an odd sort of dystopian themed novel, so subtle yet so emotionally intense. The story at first glance seemed like a pointlessly slow meandering through the main character, Kathy’s, childhood memories, but then there was also this almost malignant undercurrent of hinted at secret...
I read through this book in just two days. It was difficult reading at first, because of its harrowing premise (which I will try not to detail, because it's supposed to be a surprise, even though it seemed to me to be stated on the first page); and because its narrator, Kathy, starts out by expressi...
I don’t want to ruin the magic of this tale by giving too much away. Even what little I need to say may ruin it for some readers, so, if you wish to explore this amazing novel on your own as I did then stop reading my write-up now!This is a dystopian love story unlike anything you’ve ever encounter...
what happened?!?! this is awful! how did this become Ishiguro's best-seller?what drugs did he take?an allegory about artists being used up by society? by the last generation being used up?clearly a case of a brilliant and recognizable cover... excellent marketing; hollywood tie-in. Ishiguro does you...
I think I really liked this book. I hate to say it, because it sounds like much of what I had previously heard that threw me off more than anything, but it was like a dream. Well, like a dream on TV or film anyway. What I mean is that there seems to be all this going on that I could not quite grasp,...
Spoilers:This book was in the end probably the most frustrating and disappointing experience of my reading life. The book is very nearly a great book, but it is broken.The book is told from the point of view of a clone that has been bred to provide parts in medical treatment. The central problem o...
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