... it science fiction? I think there are quite a few books which aren't pure sci-fi, but sit there on the edges of the genre (Never Let Me Go? The Handmaid's Tale?). I don't know where the line is drawn.

Sorry, more: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

What did you think of Never Let Me Go? I read it last year and loved it, but I know others have found it to be too slow-paced.

13. Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro 14. Rich Man, Poor Man - Irwin Shaw

... Fern Michaels -4 stars, have enjoyed the whole Sisterhood series Eating Peacocks by Barbara Else - 2 1/2 stars, average Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - 2 stars, A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne - 4 stars, I could easily relate to the 70's, very well written and a very ...

msf59 - Good luck with Never Let Me Go. It's a great book, as are all Ishiguro's so, once you've finished that one, you have to go get all the others too! You're in for a real treat. And vampir - a gift-book-buying dad! I hope you realise how lucky you are!

From Bookmooch: Never Let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read The Remains of the Day many years ago and loved it. I've been hearing great stuff about this book also, so I thought I would give it a try!

... 97. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 2004 98. Adjunct: an Undigest, 2006 99. Saturday, 2006 100. Never Let Me Go, 2008

> 39: bookoholic13- I would love a copy of Never Let Me go. My Bookmooch username is also msf59. Thanks and I hope I'm in time!

... on the earth's natural resources and all-powerful drugs companies seems very plausible. The book reminded me a bit of Never Let Me Go as it follows one of the underclass in society, but it was a much more simplistic book than Never Let Me Go - the world system was outlined clearly ...

... America by Philip Roth, 2005 315. *On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 2005 316 *Saturday by Ian McEwan, 2006 317. *Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro,2006

... we thought it might be fun to read aloud (with voices!), though I don't know if it's too serious for that. I finished Never Let Me Go and Intern. It's funny because Jauhar's book captured me right away, but the ending felt too much like a "summing up"--like something you'd see in a ...

... Smith 14 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith 15 Swimmers Rope by Stephanie Johnson 16 Eating Peacocks by Barbara Else 17 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 18 A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne 19 Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers 20 Such a Pretty Girl by Laura W ...

4. Ne engedj el... (Never Let Me Go) by Katuo Ishiguro in Hungarian Powerful, shocking, thought-provoking book.

... to not buy any more books until the big charity book sale next month, I found myself in the used bookstore picking up Never Let Me Go for the Reading Around the World group here, and The Bell Jar which I've been hunting down for awhile. Then I just had to go to the chain store down the ...

Thanks for the posts everyone! I'm glad to see so many positive thoughts about Never Let Me Go. VictoriaPL, I think I'll make that my next book,while continuing to read the few I've already started (I tend to read multiple books at a time, depending on what they are). I have high expectations for ...

24. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I was somewhat disappointed by this book. I had not read anything by Ishiguro before, but I was looking forward to it because I had heard so much about him. The basic idea is interesting, but not particularly original; to make a good book, the ...

Welcome, Diane! It's 10 January and you're on book 10 already! Nice going! I didn't enjoy Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro much either, but loved The Remains of the Day by him - it was one of my top five reads last year. It's very beautifully written.

... save me any money but added another £10 to the final bill. Anyhow - that's how I come to be sitting here looking at Let Me Go, Afloat, Shakespeare's Wife, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (though, at this rate, there won't be any), The Assassin's Cloak and The Letters of ...

Hi Dianestm - just curious, but why only 2 stars for Never Let Me Go? I read it this summer and loved it, so I would enjoy hearing what you thought!

Book No. 6 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2 stars The story of cloned children to be used as donors when they are old enough and needed. Kathy tells the story of how she meet both Ruth and Tommy, their lives at school, Hailsham, and how she meet both Ruth and Tommy again while working ...

Hello! I'm reading Never Let Me Go for my challenge as well. Any idea when you might be reading it? Just curious.

... Solitude unfinished although I suspect it will remain unfinished as I've already tried to read it at least twice. I read Never Let Me Go last year and loved it, and the same with The Year of Magical Thinking although both could be seen as bleak. I just read Cloudstreet last week and ...

Cait86 - thanks for the recommend of Never Let Me Go. A definite for sure!!! Aruba - I have read the Moore book and really enjoyed it. Will have to source the Patrick Hamilton - I like sad stories! Thanks for the recommend. FlossieT - I think you would not regret watching the movie of Rema ...

... with some great reading, kiwidoc! Remains of the Day is already on Continent TBR, but I am moving it up rapidly. I read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro last year and definitely want to read more of his stuff.

Hey kiwidoc, The Remains of the Day is on my list for this year - have you read Never Let Me Go, also by Ishiguro? It was a very interesting work, a dystopia set in the '90s.

... move it into the Booker category. I've heard good things about The Life of Pi, so maybe I will try that one. I read Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro this summer and enjoyed it, so I will put The Remains of the Day on my list too! Thanks again :)

... Gentlemen 24. Methodism 25. The Great Divorce 26. Sorcery and Cecelia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot 27. Never Let Me Go 28. The Old Man and Me 29. Have His Carcase 30. Number Ten 31. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection 32. The Undomestic Goddess 33. ...

... like the narrator. I'm halfway through The Secret History and then will jump into Watchmen. Absolutely loved Never Let Me Go. And neat to see Waiting for Godot - I remember doing that one in drama class in high school. Many of your 1001 books are near the top of my TBR. I ...

... Bronte - A+ 31. The Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev - B 32. The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates - B 33. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - A 34. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - A 35. Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper - B 36. Mort by Terry Pratchett - B ...

... the UK or USA and wanted to change that. Dystopia - something I've always been vaguely interested in and after enjoying Never Let Me Go I changed one of my categories to this. Retro, 1960s, Beats and Counterculture - I write for a retro website and am fascinated in particular by the 1960s ...

74. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro I picked this up in a charity shop, having loved Never Let Me Go and being drawn to the plot involving a detective. I really enjoyed the start of the novel, the details of the childhood in Shanghai and the narrator's introduction to society life in Lo ...

I'm shooting for 50 with as few textbooks as possible! December 2008: The Remains of the Day Never Let Me Go Dr. Thorne is my first Anthony Trollope novel and a long time coming at that! I'm a huge fan of 19th century European literature, especially British and Russian. In-progre ...

... – Ernaux Piano Shop on the Left Bank – Carhart A Year in the Merde – Clarke Long Ago in France – Fisher Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro The Lay of the Land – Ford A Thousand Acres – Smiley Jazz – Morrison The Road – McCarthy Anna Karenina – Tolstoy Howa ...

... How to Listen So Kids Will Talk and Talk So Kids Will Listen - done 8. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - done 9. Let Go by Sheila Walsh - done 6. History / Philosophy natch - see extra category at bottom - I'll still reach 81 7. Drama & Poetry 1. Hamlet by Shakespeare - ...

... year!) 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diaz 3. The White Tiger—Avarind Adiga 4. Never Let Me Go—Kazou Ishiguru 5. The Road—Cormac McCarthy 6. The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion 7. Bel Canto—Anne Patchett

... McCarthy With 4, the first little pack behind the leaders: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafron Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ...

... this challenge. Even though reviews are not required, I need to work on getting better at writing them. I'm going to read Never Let Me Go before or after my Philip K Dick book. From what I've seen, they should go well together.

... know too many of the books that you have selected in that category, so I'll be interested to know what you think! I read Never Let Me Go this year and I thought it was fantastic. It's a book that has really stayed with me long after I finished it.

Middlemarch George Eliot is simply a wonderful writer andNever Let Me Go. These two were my favourites but there were many books from the 1001 list deserving of honourable mentions.

... all these discussions about Kazuo Ishiguro - we were just discussing his stuff in the office at work... I've only read Never Let Me Go - I disliked the story (and it's not actually very original), but felt that that wasn't really the point of the book - and I was completely gripped the ...

I really liked Never Let Me Go when I read it a couple years ago. But I have to honestly say I don't remember much more about it than that.

... Finished Mar 27 iv. Fevre Dream Finished Apr 13 v. Half-Life Finished May 31 vi. Possession Finished June 8 vii. Never Let Me Go Finished June 24 viii. Firebird Finished August 1 ix. An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England Finished August 5

>339: Diana, for me nothing quite touches Remains of the Day. When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go are both good reads, but I didn't find them so perfectly crafted (happy to return your '75ers' favour and post you Orphans if you fancy it though!). The Unconsoled is just plain weir ...

I made it to work and back okay. There is another storm heading our way Friday and one on Sunday. School will be out on Fri for the Xmas break - the attendance has already been low due to the transit strike and the weather isn't helping. Does anyone recommend anything else written by Kazuo Ish ...

... the 1001 list not that long ago, so I hadn't been purposely reading any of them this past year. A friend recommended Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's the only 1001 book I read all year (so I guess by default it's the best....!). However, it was also the best book I read all year ...

... tion: 1. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 2. Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 3. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 4. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 5. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry

... away during lunch and came away with Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I also bought Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, but that's part of my best friend's Christmas present.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth

... by Stephenie Meyer 24. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 25. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro So I'm 1/4 of the way done...but halfway through my year. I think that does not bode well...but three of the above books (22, 25, ...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Three to See the King by Magnus Mills Fup by Jim Dodge Naive Super by Erlend Loe Light of Day by Graham Swift

... "bests" aren't as good as my bests from other years. So here goes: Bleak House, Dickens Family Matters, Mistry Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver Alias Grace, Atwood Infidel, Hirsi Ali Survival in Auschwitz (aka If This is a Man), Levi

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee from BetterWorldBooks. I must shamefacedly admit that I have never read Mockingbird, just watched the movie.

... Unsurprisingly, with one exception, my favourites have come from the last 5 months. My favourites so far have been: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (which I see is on a few lists here) Three to See the King - Magnus Mills Fup - Jim Dodge Naive, Super - Erlend Loe Light of Day ...

I loved Fingersmith by Sarah Waters immensely, I am going to reread it in 2009. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro touched me deeply. It is my number one for 2008. Thank you for reminding me. Machteld

... exercise my language skills which are, admittedly, very rusty. Slow going, but oddly enjoyable. The story is a fun one. Never Let Me Go - I was pretty sure I had read this before, but it wasn't in my Library Thing library, so I checked out. Sure enough, I had. Thought-provoking both on a ...

I have a few: Remains of the Day by Ishiguro Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons Time and Again by Jack Finney Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ...

... more books that I enjoyed this year than I have in years past. So far, my top picks are: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Unaccustomed Earth by Jh ...

... signed up for a bookring, and then thought "hang on, that cover's awfully familiar...") and that it was the same writer as Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day. I do like Murakami, so maybe I should give Floating World another chance... Chapter seven of The Trial was the killer for ...

#75 Couldn't agree with you more about Never Let Me Go, which I read last year. I finished it, but by the time I got to the "surprise" ending (which I had figured out by the end of the first chapter), I was dying of boredom. Way too much precious teenage angst and blather, IMO.

From LisaMorr's library, Never Let Me Go is already on my Christmas wishlist.

I've said goodbye to The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer as a ReadItSwapIt swap and I'll be taking Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro back to the library (although I imagine I'll buy a copy of this at some point in the future as I loved it).

... Helen, Euripides and Antigone, Sophocles. 6. World Literature: Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry 7. 1001 Books: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Eight More Books from my Closet: The Waves, Virginia Woolf

... overly sentimental and great use of multiple narrators. 7. Book Club reads This category was redeemed by the final book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Subtly disturbing, brilliant depiction of childhood friendships. Loved it. 8. Books by authors whose other work I've enjoyed Some ...

... you for your comment. I'm going to continue to comment on each book on the list that I read. Last week I finished: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro A woman recounts her childhood in a beautiful school in England in the recent past, but this a slightly different, somewhat sinister ...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; read 2 summers ago

I too loved Water for Elephants and Never Let Me Go, but as sandancer said, to each his own, I think Ishiguro is an amazing author.

75 & 76: I loved Never Let Me Go, but its all just personally opinion.

#75- I also really loved Never Let Me Go!

Never Let Me Go. Lazy, poorly plotted, over hyped and frankly boring. There is no subtext here worth discussing. I'm most annoyed that this guy is getting such a lot of good press for something so horribly underwritten. And did I mention I hated it? Other than that, it's been a great year!

63 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro It may be cliche to say I was blown away by this book, but that is how I feel. I was immediately drawn in by the narrator, intrigued with the impending sense that something wasn't quite right in her world. I loved the way the situation was slowly unfolded ...

... row 5. Book of Lost Things - John Connolly 6. Norwegian Wood - Hanuki Murakami 7. Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka 8. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro What a contrast between the last two books in this category. I hated Two Caravans and found it the worst book in this category but I ...

Never Let Me Go - read it some months ago, and I can still reproduce the feeling of uneasiness as I consider what will happen to the protagonist after the end of the book, once she ceases to be a caregiver.

Antichrista by Amelie Nothomb Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger - not fiction but very readable. The Collector by John Fowles Monster Love by Carol Topolski - very distressing, definately not a happily ever after book. In Search of Ada ...

... the most "anti-happy ending" examples, off the top of my head. Adding to The Remains of the Day, mentioned in # 5 above, Never Let Me Go also broke my heart.

About a quarter of the way through Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro which I think is really interesting so far and I hope it lives up the expectations I now have of it.

... men james agee (12 july-2 august) 2 brick lane monica ali (1 march- 6 march) 3 ceremony leslie marmon silko 4 never let me go kazuo ishiguro 5 the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian sherman alexie (23 september) 6 a history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters julian ...

... MC Beaton - Death of a Witch (2/25/09) 5. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (7/2/09) 6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (5/29/09) 7. Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (3/09) 8. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre (5/24/09) 9. CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch ...

... will take longer: The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Comedians - Graham Greene Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

... 41. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue- by the Marquis de Sade 42. The Big Nowhere- by James Ellroy 43. Never Let Me go- by Kazuo Ishiguro 44. A Clockwork Orange- by Anthony Burgess 45. Island- by Aldous Huxley

... Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" by Mark Haddon is one of two books on the top of my male author list, along with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I have to reveal a secret, too: I always choose books from my "to read" shelf because I am always so busy either writing or teaching ...

... ago, don't own it anymore THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fantasy) read many times, last time this year NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro (Fiction) maybe TBR A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly (Historical Fiction) read this year, recommended ONE HUNDRED YEARS O ...

... a pleasure to read and my first taste of Ishiguro. I'm also interested in reading a couple of his other books, namely Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, and A Pale View of Hills.) Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (A YA set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, told through the eyes of a young ...

... onsoled: This is (I think) the third novel by Ishiguro that I've read (I read The Remains of the Day ages ago, and Never Let Me Go soon after it came out). What I'm particularly struck by is how different these novels are from each other - and yet they're all great. In other words, Kas ...

27. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro To compare this book with my other favorite dystopians would be unfair. In my opinion, the strength of this novel is really in its emotions and realistic characters. The gradual maturity that you see in some characters - and not in others - reminds me so ...

... h Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham The Possibility Of An Island by Michel Houellebecq Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Romanitas by Sophia McDougall Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millett The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malco ...

48. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (276 p., English) I've come to realize I just really, really like the whole dystopic society genre. This one fits in well with Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale.

Keeping the focus on "recent," you can certainly add Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

34. Never Let Me Go Much has already been written about this book on LT. To do justice to this book would require that I write a very long review, which, of course, is always an indication that a book qualifies as literature, not just "a novel." For brevity's sake I will say that I think Ishigu ...

#160 rachbxl: I am looking forward to your review of The Unconsoled. I read his Never Let Me Go earlier this year and liked it very much. I had never read anything by Ishiguro prior to this year.

... Mortal Engines 4.5/5 - Fantasy (funny!!) 17. The Nazi Officer's Wife 4/5 - World War II Autobiography 18. Never Let Me Go - 5/5 - Dystopia/Sci-Fi 19. One Red Paperclip - 4/5 - Autobiography/Humour 20. The Other Queen - 3/5 - Historical Fiction (Elizabetha ...

In no special order: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Son of the Morning by Linda Howard The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry Lush Life by Richard Price My favorite of the lot was Remains of the Day - simple and ...

... of Men by P.D. James (3/05/2009) 4. Logan's Run by William F Nolan (2.11.2009) 5. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (4.25.2009) 6. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman (5/2/2009) 7. V: Th ...

... h Clear Water by Will Ashon Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham The Possibility Of An Island by Michel Houellebecq Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Romanitas by Sophia McDougall Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millett The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malco ...

... 2.2 or Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (Though if you only read ...

... I like that The French Lieutenant's Woman was chosen instead of The Magus. I think the choice of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go rather than The Remains of the Day is baffling--I find the latter to be a far better book. After reading a lot of African literature (much of which was ...

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous Hiroshima by John Hersey Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

Gail- I was consistently surprised by how powerful Never Let Me Go is. What an amazing book. Like I say, I think it's going to take me awhile to gather up my thoughts entirely on this one.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 304 pages / 2005 / 5 stars / Fiction / 9-10-08 / audiobook You can read my review kambrogi in 50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2008 (Sep 9, 2008, 6:22pm)

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/057122413X.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> #44 Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro My first Ishiguro, but not my last. There is something so quietly powerful in his style, something so universal in his deeply interior ...

I loves me some Ishiguro. Read A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, and Never Let Me Go and loves them all, though I'd say Artist was my least favorite of them all.

#27 - I loved Never Let Me Go and I've also read Remains of the Day, the writing is simply perfect - try that one too. I want to read all of Ish' books eventually.

OK, I'll probably get a lot of flack for this. I finished Never Let Me Go about a year ago--but I wish that I had let it go sooner. Yes, Ishiguru writes very well. The book got rave reviews and tons of prizes. But the plot was SO predictable. Readers kept gushing about the "surprise" ending. ...

Never Let Me Go Saturday On Beauty Slow Man Adjunct: An Undigest The Sea The Red Queen The Plot Against America The Master Vanishing Point The Lambs of London Dining on Stones Cloud Atlas Drop City The Colour Thursbitch The Light of Day What I Love ...

Never Let Me Go Saturday On Beauty Slow Man Adjunct: An Undigest

... all pepper him with questions!!! I read and enjoyed When We Were Orphans but haven't tried anything else yet, though Never Let Me Go seems to be a favorite here with the LT'ers and the 75'ers.

... sidetracked about other things - you know how it is over a bottle of wine... But, one of the things that struck me about Never Let Me Go was how he was able to get inside of a young girls head so well - got my answer. His daughter was the same age when he was writing it. Makes sense. Lots ...

... I'll have his books now! We're actually getting together tomorrow mainly just to talk about his writing and discuss Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day the two that I've read so far - she's quite enlightening about his writing and she's able to answer a lot of questions for me, ...

I totally agree with your read on Ishiguro's Never let me go. It does stay with you long after you are done. It was different from anything that I have read in a long time and I really, really enjoyed it.

Finished Kafka on the Shore and starting Never Let Me Go.

... by David Sedaris for Other Nonfiction Waiting by Ha Jin for Award Winners Night by Eli Wiesel for Other Countries Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro for Authors New to Me I need to try and stay on this pace to finish, because I am trying not to overlap. Next up is Sweetsmoke, an Ea ...

... Claudine Novels...by Colette i also started When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro..i know you all have raved about Never Let Me Go..but i don't own that one....WWWO has been on my shelf since 2002(talk about languishing!!!jeesh) anyhow...has anyone read When We Were Orphans?...and ...

... quite as enthusiastic about it as some on LT have been. I'm glad I read it, though. The only Ishiguro I've read is Never Let Me Go. There were parts of the narrative style that bugged me at the time but were probably necessary given the narrator. Still, it's a book that has definitely ...

I am reading Never Let Me Go which is great so far!

I am reading Never Let Me Go (finally) and it is great!

#171: I highly recommend Never Let Me Go and A Clockwork Orange is my fave book of all time. I wish I could get that feeling of reading it for the first time again!

... who's writing in my opinion is nearly perfect. 1. The Remains of the Day - I think this is my favorite so far 2. Never Let Me Go - close 2nd to Remains and a highlander romance for some light reading that was much better than I expected 3. Highlander Unchained by Monica Mccar ...

... I know almost nothing about Norse mythology, but hopefully this book will teach me a thing or two. Also, I want to start Never Let Me Go. And I need to read A Clockwork Orange which I started like a month ago and just did not continue. I only have three weeks of summer left, so I want to ...

... I know almost nothing about Norse mythology, but hopefully this book will teach me a thing or two. Also, I want to start Never Let Me Go. And I need to read A Clockwork Orange which I started like a month ago and just did not continue. I only have three weeks of summer left, so I want to ...

>162, Never Let Me Go was my first Ishiguro earlier this year, and I got the chance to recommend it to a coworker yesterday. She'd read and enjoyed Remains of the Day, so I'm hoping she likes this one as well.

#142--I felt the same exact way after reading Never Let Me Go 2 years ago. It was the first of Ishiguro's books I had read and for me, the best. I still recommend it to friends.

... lists are so small. I haven't read many of these authors. I'm going with Kazuo Ishiguro since I read, and enjoyed Never Let Me Go. One book isn't a very good basis to pick a favorite author, but it is all I have to go on. -- M1001

#52: I agree completely about Never Let Me Go. I had never read anything by Ishiguro, but having seen the glowing reviews his work received here on LT decided to see what all the talk was about. I am glad I did!

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, an excellent, fascinating read. Plus, I'm in awe of how eloquent his writing is, it's such a pleasure to settle in with one of his novels and meet these new faces he writes about. This one will stay with me for a long time - I know it.

#59 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. My 2nd novel of his. An excellent, fascinating read of an alternate world in England in the later 1990's. I'm in awe of how eloquent his writing is, it's such a pleasure to settle in with one of his novels and meet these new faces he writes about. This ...

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, an excellent, fascinating read. Plus, I'm in awe of how eloquent his writing is, it's such a pleasure to settle in with one of his novels and meet these news faces he writes about. This one with stay with me for a long time - I know it.

#56 mckait Read Never Let Me Go over a year ago and am still thinking about it. An amazing novel. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

@#67: Although I'm a HUGE Ishiguro fan (and therefore you should take all my related raves with a grain of salt), Never Let Me Go is really a fantastic novel. It hearkens back to the more openly mysterious work of A Pale View of Hills and is, as always, expertly paced. I hope you like it! ...

I'm just starting Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (even though I think it's one of the books deleted from the 2nd edition)

I'm now starting Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

#146 Vonini - I'm doing the same thing, I brought home Never Let Me Go from the library and intend to read all of his books before long, An Artist of the Floating World will be the next after Never Let Me Go. I can't believe my library doesn't have it!

... I will definitely look into it! Yesterday the mailman brought me When we were orphans by Ishiguro. After reading Never let me go and The remains of the day, I decided to read everything he wrote. In the meantime, this purchase has lead to a semi-serious ban of one week on Marktpl ...

... dice P.G. Wodehouse - after The Inimitable Jeeves Vladimir Nabokov - after Lolita Kazuo Ishiguro - after Never Let Me Go Jasper Fforde - after The Eyre Affair William Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury Graham Greene - after The Quiet American Evelyn ...

... 107. Kafka on the Shore 108. Unless 109. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 110. On Beauty 111. Never Let Me Go

... for detail in books (and films) that I love (or, in fact, those that have a big impact, even if I don't enjoy them, like Never Let Me Go) is usually better than most - nonetheless, with many of my re-reads, (I'm thinking in particular of Jane Austen here, who I have re-read countless ...

... it's a great coming of age story from Scout's point of view. Not sure how unsettling a book you want to consider, but Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro would fit this category and is an extremely well-written work. If you don't mind a science fiction setting—the themes of the book ...

... courage to act for the good. Hell, I saw that at my last job, and the stakes were considerably lower. I do agree that Never Let Me Go is a better work than Oryx and Crake. I did, however, frequently find myself wondering what the noncloned donor recipients thought. I wanted a closer ...

... science fiction (speculative fiction if you will) can be "literary." Atwood accomplishes this task. P.S. I recommend Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro both for those who didn't like Oryx and Crake as well as those who did.

... of the Day and An Artist of the Floating World are my two favorites (I can't pick). Everyone mentions Remains and Never Let Me Go, and I feel that Artist is neglected. So all you who loved Remains, go put Artist on your TBR pile right now!

I'm waiting for about 3 ARCs, so I'm reading a library book from the TBR: Never let me go by Kazua Ishiguro.

#273> I enjoyed Remains of the Day and thought Never Let Me Go was fantastic! Enjoy!

#273 sadiesimone I just read Remains of the Day and loved it too. I'll be reading Never Let me Go in a few days!

... Amit Chaudhuri The Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich The Prophet of Zongo Street by Mohammed Naseehu Ali Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dali Lama by Pico Iyer

Whisper - I picked Never Let Me Go up because I'd seen it recommended on LT too. Well, that, plus it was on the Iowa City Public Library Recommends. . . shelf, which is right by the door, and sometimes the only shelf that my kids have the patience to let me browse! Blackdogbooks - Thanks for ...

... it. It is the only Ishiguro I have read but I do want to read A Pale View of Hills. I'm not that interested in reading Never Let Me Go.

Well after last week saying I was reading Never Let Me Go, among other things, I got hooked into The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society, which I'd categorize as a light but literate summer read that I quite enjoyed. And now, truly, I've begun the Ishiguro.

Porch Reader... Thanks for noting Never Let Me Go I see that others highly recommend this as well. Ah, the bane and blessing of Library Thing is that I hear of so many wonderful books to read...and then...the to be read pile builds astronomically. I hope you are feeling better!

... the Jackal/The Night of the Iguana A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Winter's Tale Revelation/The Secret History Never Let Me Go/Farewell My Lovely The Waste Land/The Good Earth

#45 - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - Finished July 8, 2008 This is an unusual, but oddly compelling book. On the surface, it is the story of three friends who attended a boarding school together. However, Ishiguro gradually reveals why these students are different than most boarding ...

... entertainment really) called Mr. Thundermug by Cornelius Medvei. That should take me into midweek and Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. A fun week!

I only read one book that I would classify as excellent in the month of June, and that was Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder was good and entertaining, but I didn't love it the way I loved the Ishiguro.

Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans I didn't like this nearly as much as Never Let Me Go or the Remains of Day, but it was interesting. Allan Heinberg - Young Avengers Vol. 1: Sidekicks Allan Heinberg - Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters I picked these up on a ...

#56 -- I picked up Never Let Me Go based on the "buzz" alone, so the tale as it unraveled was a surprise for me as well. I just found premise too silly to be taken seriously. It was worth reading for the writing, but the book was not the rewarding experience I had been led to expect.

#53 & #55 -- Did you know what Never Let Me Go was about before you started reading it? I absolutely loved it, but I think part of the reason was because I knew nothing about it, so it was all a surprise. It strikes me as one of those books that would be a disappointment if you had too much ...

... of Mr Whicher:A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale #53:Yes, zanix, Never Let Me Go was a disappointment for me too

... The Invention of Morel, Post Office, Steppenwolf, The Wild Geese/Gan Disappointments: Disgrace by Coetzee Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro The Secret Agent by Conrad Worst of: The Body Artist by DeLillo The Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis

... for the second quarter (in no particular order) are: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Voyager by Diana Gabaldon Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen The last two are lighter than the others, but I think it's good to read ...

... his books my undying gratitude. The remains of the day will always be on my list of favourite books, and I enjoyed never let me go as well. Also George R.R. Martin's series A song of ice and fire was something I would never have picked up without LT, and I am in love with it (only ...

Year of Wonders - thanks Teelgee The Road Pride and Prejudice I hope to finish Middlemarch and get to Never Let Me Go. Thanks LT!

The two best books I've read (so far) this year were both the result of LT- Fingersmith and Never Let Me Go. Before LT, they were both on the "maybe someday" list, and now I've completed them and love them.

... that, and certainly some that would appeal to readers-who-don't-read-science-fiction (i.e. Children of Men, Herland, Never Let Me Go, The Sparrow, The Speed of Dark, and The Secret {by Eva Hoffman, no touchstone}).

... this really challenging and pick just one. This quarter, it would be: Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood. My runner-up is Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Winner in the non-fiction category is The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens.

... unusual book and definitely worth reading. A must-read for readers, writers, read-writers and writer-readers. Finished Never Let Me Go over the weekend. Decent novel as well. Started Remembrance of Things Past, and when I say started, I mean I finished fifty pages of 3000+ pages, so I ...

Oooh, fun thread idea. My last five books: -Never Let Me Go: this is a book I would have read no matter what (due to recommendations from everyone ever), but LT and the 1001 list played huge roles in my reading it. -The Alcestiad: my ownership of this is a lot more... interesting. I got ...

From the Chester, CT library book sale today: In the Fall, Lost Nation, The Lazarus Child, The Art Thief, and Never Let Me Go. So excited to start reading.

I just finished Never Let Me Go this morning, so it's time for a new read. I'll probably continue Drums of Autumn this week and start on The Big Over Easy for the Go Review that Book! group.

19. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I loved this book. Really, really loved it. I went in knowing nothing about the plot (only what was on the back cover), and was quite surprised when I discovered exactly what was happening in the book. I will definitely be reading more by Ishiguro in the ...

I finished the fourth book in my 1001 Books category, Never Let Me Go. I wasn't planning to read it, but after hearing several times what a great book it was, I decided to give it a shot. And I wasn't disappointed. It's one of those books that I'm glad I knew nothing about going in (much like Fin ...

... Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died Morgan and Me by Stephen Cosgrove Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

... or Mapping the Waters, Marina Warner 5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 6. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 7. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley I also have books from the 1001 list in other categories. They are: Jane Eyre, Bleak Hou ...

... target=_blank>this group or not, but a brief post of why you pair Under the Skin with Never Let Me Go would be interesting.

... the Skin; I was more into the diverse ethical and identity issues raised by the novel. (I pair it with Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.) I can't forgive Winterson so easily, because she's not giving me much else to work with here, besides the trite & obvious. (Really? Earth is polluted, ...

Top book for May 2008: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro Runner up: Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens

... Under the Skin by Michel Faber, picked up after seeing it mentioned on a few threads lately. (And in conjunction with Never Let Me Go, no less--now that's convincing. :) It's creepy and enigmatic, and the pieces are starting to fall into place--loving it!

I agree that the Name of the Rose is very good. From the N's I also think that two dystopian novels are also very good: Never Let Me Go and Nineteen Eighty-four.

... I am going to rewrite all I did before. I decided to read this book in part because every time that I said that I liked Never let me go also by Ishiguro, everyone would immediately suggest The Remains of the day and would tell me how much they liked it better. To me both books are totally ...

... read, but as with Ishiguro, one you dwell on for a while. I've read 3 of Ishiguro's books and so far, none compares with Never Let Me Go. 7. An Empire of Women by Karen Shepard Another one I've had in my library for years. This took me a while to read and I put it aside to read ...

... this week and desperately needed, it's just been that kind of week 178. Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb 179. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - first book I had ever read by him, I look forward to reading more 180. Before Lewis and Clark by Shirley Christian - ...

Just finished Never Let Me Go -- wow, does that one sneak up on you. Really gripping and rather powerful stuff. I just started The Third Policeman, and I'm debating giving in at last and knocking Jane Eyre off its perch as the longest resident of my to-be-read pile.

I know I'm in the minority, but I really hated Never Let Me Go . . . maybe because it got too much hype, and I was expecting something less predictable. Or maybe because I just wasn't in the mood to be inside the self-indulgent heads of thirteen-year olds, which is where most of the book took ...

I'll pop up and agree with you too, jfetting! Never Let Me Go is amazing - bleak and terrifying but so emotionally gripping. This reminds me - I lent my first edition to someone over a year ago and they've still got it - must ask for it back!

... of the Floating World. I think that The Remains of the Day is his best, with An Artist falling second on my list, and Never Let Me Go third. But they're all so good. His works have such a quiet, understated grace about them, and he has masterfully firm control of tone and pacing.

The Stolen Child by Kevin Donohue. Beautiful, transfixing faery and human story. In tone, reminds me of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

... state of things, despite their knowledge that things had once been different. The understated tone reminded me a bit of Never Let Me Go, which I also really enjoyed. I LOVED the final portion of the book - it was an awesome twist. At first I did not understand what I was reading. But then ...

On the agenda for this week: Light Before Day, Fifth Business, Before Lewis and Clark, Penmarric, Never Let Me Go, The Earth Shall Weep, Clockers, and Arctic Explorations.

... of the greatest modern creepfests I've ever read, and a book that should be read comparatively with Ishiguro's masterpiece Never Let Me Go. #23: cmt, since I posted about Nixonland earlier today, I've read a rave review of it in today's LATimes, which called it "dazzling" among other ...

Finished Middlemarch and have picked up Never Let Me Go. It's my first Ishiguro and I've been looking forward to it after hearing everybody rave about his books. I'm up to chapter three and I'm hooked. There's something about his writing - smooth and easy - it just makes me want to keep ...

I've only read two by Ishiguro ~ Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans ~ so perhaps I am being presumptuous to say this, but for me it's the understated elegance of his style, the way he doesn't pound you over the head with his meaning. With both books, I enjoyed reading them but didn't ...

I concur. My first Kazuo Ishiguro was the audio book of Never Let Me Go that I listened to earlier this month. It really makes me want to read more from this author . . . I've seen the movie Remains of the Day, which in my memory bears no resemblance, and I own When We Were Orphans, which ...

Took a 1001 break to finally read Rant, but I'm thinking that once I finish, Never Let Me Go is calling to me...

... by George Orwell **** 2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ****½ 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy *** 4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro *** 5. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ** 6. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells ** 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

... sections more compelling than others. Lahiri can definitely write and I look forward to reading other books by her. 21. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. This was a very disappointing read for me. I really expected to love the book, especially after The Remains of the Day. I guess I ...

... I swore to read happier books for a long, long time. Well, another dystopian novel snuck up on me without my knowledge: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. I listened to the audio book. When I started to listen to it, I did not know what the book was about, or that it was a dystopian ...

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro This is a difficult book to write a blurb on, because I don't want to give anything away. I approached it with no foreknowledge, and I don't want to prevent another reader from sharing that experience. I hadn't actually planned on reading it, but I had many ...

Progress in May 16. Never Let Me Go 17. West With the Night 18. Middlemarch 19. Lucky Man 20. Wide Sargasso Sea 21. The Looking Glass 22. A Recipe for Bees 23. Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast 24. Silk 25. The Water-babies

... a few minutes to myself just now, so I'm going to at least attempt to catch up, review-wise. Let's see . . Ah yes. Never Let Me Go. I'd like to follow in the footsteps of so many others here, and avoid giving any kind of plot synopsis, since I do agree that the book works better the ...

May 2008 28. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro 29. West With the Night, by Beryl Markham 30. Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, by Christopher Hitchens 31. Middlemarch, by George Eliot 32. Lucky Man, by Michael J. Fox 33. Wide Sargasso Sea, ...

1001 Remainders: Lucky Jim Spies and Private Eyes: The Innocent Speculative Fiction: Never Let Me Go, Neverwhere More Languages: Victoria (Norwegian)

Gayle -- I had to take my daughters to lacrosse tonight and I only had about 20 minutes left on the audio book of Never Let Me Go. Aaargh! I've enjoyed the whole thing--I had no idea what I was getting myself in for. Now I have to go read 8 year old Anne of Green Gables (not on the list, of ...

#19, I am on pg 167 of Never Let Me Go. I was enjoying it, but not loving it, when suddenly, in chapter 12, something interesting was revealed, and now, I'm excited about reading it again. I'm also excited about finishing it, because I just bought 4 new books that I can't wait to read: Nip ...

... I think my modern lit treatise/diatribe/rant/who knows may compare the last three grown-up modern books I've read- Never Let Me Go, The Road, and Geek Love. It's percolating. People will almost certainly disagree. But . . . there's something there. Sigh. Time for work.

... you come across, greatly received!! I didn't know the plot before hand, but had a pretty similar reaction to Never Let Me Go - somehow, this is the first Ishiguro that I've got around to reading and I think he writes beautifully, but found the story a bit less than... Having ...

... tackle around the house over the next week, and I like to listen to books while I work. I've downloaded the audio book of Never Let Me Go from the public library onto my PC. I have no idea what this book is about, and I've never read Kazuo Ishiguro before, so this will be all new.

... loathing in las vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, the cleft by Doris Lessing, on the road by Jack Kerouac, Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro (wanted to see what all the fuss here on LT was about) and There are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry. feck the money these were ...

(Thanks whitewavedarling. I wish I'd been assigned books like this for class!) 26. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro Ishiguro seems to defy reviewing. However, a few impressions: Overwhelmingly different to The remains of the day except in the general structure of the book, i.e. the ...

Never Let Me Go ***½ by Kazuo Ishiguro 04/28/08

... on the Western Front on my current TBR stack. Thanks for the recommendation. Have to find a copy of The Book Thief and Never Let me go before they can go on the stack. I buy mainly used books to add to the library. Think you might have also added to a recommendation for things Fall Apart ...

Just picked up Never Let me Go and am excited to start it. I just finished Someone Knows My Name which was recommended by a friend of a friend who runs a book group. I was afraid it was going to be a bit "Oprah's Club" for me but I was on vacation and OK with that. I ended up quite liking it. ...

... cancer and all of their friends seem to be dying at once, which of course makes their final letters very poignant. 25) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro--Unfortunately, I knew beforehand what the surprise twist was going to be; fortunately, the "mystery" aspect of that wasn't the central ...

18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Not one of "The Five" but an incidental audiobook. Not really incidental either--a really thought-provoking and interesting one. I took a lot of notes to use as discussion with my Medical Law & Ethics class.

Beloved,Never Let Me Go. The Bluest Eye Troubles The Black Prince.

I've read that! How about Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro?

"You get terrible accidents sometimes." Never let me go "It's so luscious. Where did you get it?"

... Atonement. It's one of my favourite books. Kazuo Ishiguro is another author who I found through the Booker Prize list. Never Let Me Go is one of the most powerful and enjoyable books I've read. As for the diversity on the list...you can actually find some novels from genres you might not ...

"Maybe I got it all wrong, Kath, I don't know." Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro "listen, don't breathe a word to anyone about this, right?"

"...track number three, 'Never Let Me Go'." Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro "Do you want to ride my horse?"

... hope. Speaking of which: 52. Prince Caspian, by C. S. Lewis Think I got the review covered already. 53. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro This was a very interesting book. Interesting good, but also interesting weird. I will definitely write a proper review of it ...

... mostly overseas - still not very many New Zealand members. It's so cool when overseas members agree to ship here - I have never let me go coming from cyprus! Have you found the mooch bar yet? (You probably have...) It's made LibraryThing even more addictive and my wish list is exploding. ...

My top 5 would be: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and I'm including The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox even though I just finished it because it was such a ...

... and all, I read it from a 1951 edition. Found myself absorbed in the characters. Highly recommend. Heigh? 59. 04/13/08 Never let me go – Kazuo Ishiguro 288p. Long developing but worth it in the end. . 60. 04/15/08 The girl who stopped swimming – Joshilyn Jackson 308p Inter ...

... The Little Prince (assigned reading for school) Looking for Alaska Lord of the Flies (assigned reading for school) Never Let Me Go Nickel and Dimed Night The Outsiders (read as a child) Pretties Pride and Prejudice (read as a child) The Princess Bride (read as a child) ...

... to the Galaxy The Hobbit (2-3 times) Les Miserables (2 times) Lord of the Rings (2 times) The Lovely Bones Never Let Me Go NIGHT ...again, no touchstone? Nine Stories The Outsiders Pride and Prejudice The Princess Bride (2-3 times) Rebel Angels (currently reading) ...

I agree with the Ishiguro recommendation Never Let Me Go. I read it over 2 years ago and am still recommending it. Where in Brazil are you? I went to Salvador over Christmas. It was sweltering hot there!

Tatleriv--I totally agree about Never Let Me Go which was the first Ishiguro novel I read. After that, which I loved, his others have not lived up to my high expectations.

... one at the end watching the others automatically respond to the traffic light. I liked that one as a teenager. I hated Never Let Me Go though; I read it a year or two ago.

I know it's not the one you want as that has already been solved but, if you liked that, you might also want to try Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

... Margaret Atwood - anything Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Anita Shreve Light on Snow Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day Geraldine Brooks Year of Wonders That ought to get you going!!!

Just finished (like teelgee above) my second Ishiguro novel this year (Never Let Me Go). Loved it, but I'm not sure that the gimmick would hold up on a second read, whereas I'm definitely going to reread Remains of the Day. Now I'm beginning Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ...

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro atonement by Ian Mcewan love in the times of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez .....lotsa days to go!:)

>160 chocolatemuse, yea i love his writing too! definitely read never let me go next, its great. hes one of those writers where I was really happy that i picked up his book and tried it, like discovering a new favorite flavor :)

#158 dancingstarfish, I love it!! It's my first Ishiguro, I intend to start on never let me go as soon as I finish this one. Someone (I think whitewavedarling?) told me that his stuff is similar to Jane Austen - and certainly the insight of character and the insertions of dry wit have ...

>156 ChocolateMuse, i'm reading that book right now too! Do you like it? :) I finished Never let me go and liked it, so i picked up this one. Sabreuse, I have no idea but it sounds interesting! Once we figure out what it is I shall have to throw it on my TBR pile.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Arc d'X by Steve Erickson The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow

30. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 288 pages ***** LOVED IT!! I like the way the author gradually reveals layers to the plot, it's beautiful. I actually was assigned this book for a class, and I'm thinking a lot more highly of the professors now. I'd recommend it to anyone. :) 30/50 (60%) ...

... new authors when I start jonesing for something that's not reading for class. Here are the books I've read so far: 1) Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro 2) Saturday -- Ian McEwan 3) Adjunct: an Undigest -- Peter Manson 4) The Master: A Novel -- Colm Tóibín 5) The Colour ...

... Just today I read Breakfast at Tiffany's. While at the bookstore, I also picked up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Never Let Me Go, and I'll probably read those in the next few weeks (even though I'm currently in the middle of a non-1001 book, The Raw Shark Texts). Before the month ...

... I suspect this might be a case of nothing living up to the hype rather than the book itself being bad, though. #64 is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and it was great. It's the story of these people in England who had gone to the same special boarding school. I don't really want to ...

... things might not also be SF, and that such fiction might not also fit into some other category as well - ie, is Ishiguro'sNever Let Me Go a work of "science fiction" or of "straight fiction"? - but that'll get most of your easy cases sorted. The loose word here is "technology", of course. What ...

I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro today, but I read most of it in March -- so does it still count for April? ;-) I *loved* it. I think I'll do teelgee in 50 Book Challenge : teelgee goes for another 100 in 2008 (Apr 1, 2008, 7:13pm)

... of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks * 24. Life Class by Pat Barker 25. At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor 26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro * 27. The Book of Qualities by Ruth Gendler * = best of the quarter

In today from the libraries: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - yes, I have decided I must jump on the bandwagon, too The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson Clockers by Richard Price Arctic Explorations by Elisha Kent Kane Penmarric by Susan Howatch Ed ...

@6 - I read Never Let me go earlier this year and loved it. Very beautifully written. Today I went to the Borders that is right across the road from my work...it was my first time in the store since starting here last week. I am so impressed with my will power!! Although now that the seal has ...

>6 shelby: Never Let Me Go is really making the LT rounds right now! I just finished it; what a great book! In fact, I liked it so much, I got another of his books from the library yesterday: Remains of the Day. Also brought home Rejection, Romance and Royalties : the Wacky World of a Wor ...

>118 starfish - I also just finished Never Let Me Go - I thought it was brilliant; what did you think of it? >120 alphaorder - glad you liked The Story of Forgetting, wasn't it great to read such a stunning new author? Can't wait for his next one!!

I'm still reading Catch 22 and I went to the book shop today and picked up Never Let Me go that is on the list I hope..

I left my book at home today, so picked up another for the bus ride home, I'm so hopeless, now have Never Let Me Go I read an a chapter on Amazon and have been looking forward to it. Will alternate with Catch 22

>13 teelgee ~ My copy of Never Let Me Go had reviews printed on the inside cover of the book, and they contained major spoilers. Bah...I do wish publishers wouldn't do that! :(

Finished today: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. On to something else.. must pick from my TBD shelf. I'm leaning towards the private lives of the impressionists or The yiddish policeman's union

... it depends on the book too, how much info I want revealed (of course, sometimes you can't know that). I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and the whole book works because information is revealed very slowly, bit by bit. I was warned not to read any reviews or plot ...

teelgee, wasn't Never let Me Go wonderful? I thought it was truly original and very moving.

Well now I have to add one to my message #11: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I'll have to add one to my list (message #4): Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

After my short story-palooza today, I finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (excellent) and started What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler, which looks like an offbeat fun read.

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. You don't want to know much about this book before reading it - even the tags can be spoilers. I'd never read anything by Ishigu ...

... Sun magazine Ha Jin from Best American Short Stories 1999. Now, back to the conclusion of Never Let Me Go.

#15 teelgee ~ loved Never Let Me Go! Enjoy!

I'm on page 700 of 1,224 of War and Peace. Slow and steady progress. Also reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Most interesting!

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud Fire in the Mind Science, Faith and the Search for Order by George Johnson freakin' borders and Bookmooch doubled teamed me :)

I am somewhere in England in the 1990s but I'm thinking it's a very different England in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - just getting started. Also still marching around Russia in War and Peace.

I finally finished Saturday. I picked up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro at the library yesterday afternoon and barely got started on it last night, but I'm already ...

I have Never Let Me Go on my TBR pile (a huge pile). At the moment I'm reading Memoirs of Hadrian by Margaret Yourcenar. It is slower to read because I am not very familiar with ancient Roman culture, it's got me interested though as a fictional memoir of a successful man who makes the most ...

I finally finished Saturday. I picked up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro at the library yesterday afternoon and barely got started on it last night, but I'm already hooked. I don't usually read two books at one time, but I'm reading Aesop's Fables now, too.

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro was such a good book. I could hardly put it down. Luckily the next three I read were just as good.

>133 Joycepa I also read Never let me go some time ago and agree it is a very powerful novel. I actually just stumbled upon it as part of my dystopia kick and it immediately made me want to read more by Ishiguro. I just can't get over his style. He takes his time for the story, but it's ...

... the Floating World. The same moral theme seems to permeate nearly all his books, but that one, Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go seem to me to be the most powerfully developed. Never Let Me Go haunted me for weeks after I read it.

... remember how beautifully written it was and how much it stuck in my head for ages after I finished it. I haven't read Never Let me Go yet - I think it was published just after I had my son and I wasn't in the mood (I'm trying not to give away what I've read...). Might have to go buy it! ...

I'm currently about 1/3 into The Remains of the Day and I'm enjoying it very much. I read Ishiguro's Never let me go as part of my dystopia fascination and I absolutely adored it and after reading many good things about The Remains of the Day it was on my must read list. I think I will ...

... up. But in period movies, you can watch for four hours before you see a kiss and yet it stays with you for days. 14. Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro. My goodness, what can I say about this book? It is sad,sometimes funny, comtemplative, but no matter what emotion you have when reading ...

#147: I read Never Let Me Go a while back and loved it--then read The Remains of the Day a few weeks back and ADORED it. Hope you enjoy it, too. I went to Strand today and bought too many books, as usual. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier A Room with a View by E.M. Forster Flatland ...

... managed to keep some restraint and only took home 2 books: Remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro. After reading his Never let me go, I've been really looking forward to reading more of his work. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman as everyone keeps telling me I should read some of his ...

... can be naive, but this was taking it to the next level... I finally picked up something by Ishiguro after loving his Never let me go to bits: Remains of the day. Heard a lot of excellent things about it, so I'm very excited to be reading this now.

... The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin suicides 5. Kafka on the shore 6. Cloud Atlas 7. American psycho 8. Never let me go

... a focus on interior thought and personal understanding, but so calm and mannered, and Ishiguro's writing is beautiful. Never Let me Go is another good one, but just beware of looking it up online--I don't think it's half as enjoyable the first read-through if you know what's coming, and ...

... It was surprisingly funny (in the sort of way that Jane Austen is funny--a subtle, comedy-of-manners aspect). As in Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro's command of pacing, and the slow revealing of the true nature of the situation, is superb. The mixture of comedy and pathos is also well-done, ...

... Behind the Scenes at the Museum and One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson; Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Breath, Eyes Memory -- Edwidge Danticat, which I think I've read but don't remember much. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dang ...

... Eyre by Chalotte Bronte (19th Century) Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter (Various Locals, 21st Century) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (21st Century) The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble (20th Century) A Rogue’s Proposal by Stephanie Laurens (19th Centur ...

... ton 3. Faint Praise:The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, by Gail Pool 4. Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut 5. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Gossip of the Starlings, by Nina De Gramont

... Chronicle? That's one of my favorite reading experiences of all time. @Vonini (#99) - The library's all checked-out of Never Let Me Go, so I'm moving forward on Revolutionary Road. Next week, perhaps!

@tatleriv Oooooh, go for Never let me go!! I loved it! It was the first book by Ishiguro that I read and it definitely made me want to read more of his work!

... into my reading in general, and I will try to get caught up here as quickly as I can while the inspiration lasts. 5. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro. Another first time read for this author, and for the first time this year I was not impressed. I do not want to spoil the plot for ...

... L. Stevenson's An Inland Voyage, which looks pretty great, but I'm on a fiction kick. Debating whether or not to tackle Never Let Me Go or Revolutionary Road next.

Let Me Go by Helga Schneider Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray Search the Dark by Charles Todd Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Best fiction: (tie) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - amazing, engaging writing Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - this story is so sad, but it just sucks you in. Best Nonfiction: It's Not News, It's Fark: how mass media tries to pass crap off as news by Drew Curtis ...

... Preston Faint Praise : the plight of book reviewing in America, by Gail Pool Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro Gossip of the Starlings, by Nina du Garmont

... the last several pages, reading in bed, I literally tossed the book to the foot of the bed - just broke my heart. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I loved it, and let myself believe in the characters, and I was almost crying when I thought ...

... decided to see which ones we can find at the second hand bookshop this weekend. Some of them I have already read, like Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood but there were a lot of others which looked really interesting. My list keeps growing and ...

Never Let Me Go has been languishing on the shelves for ages. It keeps making its way to the top only to be overlooked again and again. On your recommendation, however, I will definitely be reading it in the (very) near future.

... by Anita Amirrevzani The Child in Time by Ian McEwan The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan #2 Never Let Me Go is high on my list of most disappointing books.

My top 3 of January are Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

... D. Dickerson Galatea 2.2, Richard Powers The Open Curtain, Brian Evenson Austerliz, W.G. Sebald Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Menachem's Seed, Carl Djerassi

... enjoyed it. Our selections for this year are Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel, The Broken Shore by Peter Temple, The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton, Gogo Ma ...

Finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Currently working on Timbuktu by Paul Auster. This is a pretty cool story. I cannot say with confidence that I've ever read a novel where the main character was a dog, but I like what Auster did with it. At times you thing Mr. Bones is as ...

I Am A Cat by Soseki Natsume Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman Spirit Matters by Philip Gabriel

... a common experience and, in the case of some books like HP, a cultural experience. Cariola, I have to agree with you on Never Let Me Go, it just didn't wow me. A bit tedious in spots also (well, I suppose that is Ishiguro's style). Something like The Secret by Eva Hoffman takes the same idea ...

... However, I listened to the audiobook, and it may have been that I didn't like the reader (who read another book I despised, Never Let Me Go--talk about overhyped!). I'm going to give Atonement another go--in print this time. Memoirs of a Geisha is another one that I thought didn't live ...

... really care for Atonement initially. I listened to it as an audiobook, so it could have been the reader; she also read Never Let Me Go, which I absolutely despised. I plan to give it another shot in print form.

I finished Never Let Me Go and Stardust over the weekend and started The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde this morning. I've heard mixed things about Eyre Affair but so (at ~60 pages in) far I am enjoying it.

... 2. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 3. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 5. Silk by Alessandro Baricco 6. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 7. Possession by AS Byatt 8. For Whom ...

Just finished reading two books to put towards this challenge - Never Let Me Go and Stardust. Now I'm off to try to figure out what to read next.

... by Michael Chabon In a Far Country by John Taliaferro Touching the Void by Joe Simpson The Giver by Lois Lowry Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Shattered Air by Bob Madgic A Country Year by Sue Hubbell Beluga Days by Nancy Lord Well, that's enough for a start! We'll ...

#3 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro I'm not entirely sure what I expected when I first picked up this novel. What I found though was a very poetical story about the lives of three people (clones) growing up in a dystopian society. The book is told from the point of view of Kathy and is ...

... from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die 1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 2. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 4. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

... move straight on to the third book in the series but then thought that a short break between would be good and so started Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro this morning. So far I am really enjoying the style in which its written. Very lyrical.

... all, just not one after the other. Looking forward to seeing how it continues in a while, but right now I'm moving on to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Looking forward to that one too!

... Good, but not great. I liked it, especially the interweaving of the narratives, but I felt it was missing something. 3. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - A disappointment, but it probably wouldn't have been if I hadn't read The Remains of the Day first. Ishiguro writes well, but I ...

... if I'd read them as a child, but they were okay. I'm looking forward to Inkdeath. For right now, I've just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and was disappointed, so I'm going to read The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, who hasn't disappointed me yet.

... The Color Purple, Alice Walker (completed March 2008) 6. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan (completed April 2008) 7. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (completed May 2008) 8. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley (completed June 2008)

... on a scandal - the only non-fantasy (from my reading group) Ptolemy's gate Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows Never let me go Voices Shadowplay The Fourth bear Crown of stars The Sharing Knife Fatal Revenant Not a bad year :) PS - have no idea why Harry Potte ...

Never Let Me Go - has the whole parallel world thing A couple of the sections in Cloud Atlas are futuristic Murakami in general is sort of fantastic, though I'd classify him more like existential sci-fi noir The Blind Assassin has a sci-fi story in story Cryptonomicon is more ...

... know this was going to be so well-written when I selected it as an Early Reviewer pick, but man can this guy write. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

... One, Meg Cabot 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon 3. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri 4. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 5. Sweetsmoke, David Fuller 6. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd 7. Gap Creek, Robert Morgan - REPEAT! 8. A Short History of ...

... 7. Mary Doria Russell--The Sparrow 8. Robert Liparulo--Germ 6. General/Popular Fiction 1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 3. The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ...

... The Monster at the End of This Book. Great stuff! LOL I got the following for Christmas: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Never Let Me Go The Mummy or Ramses the Damned Merrick The Vampire Armand Anne Rice is one of my completeists and I'm almost there. Yay!

Off the list I got Never Let Me Go and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

With Christmas day being now over, what new books off the 1001 list did everyone get as gifts? I myself did quite well: Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro Catch 22- Joseph Heller The Awakening- Kate Chopin Timbukto- Paul Auster The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood Rabbit ...

I got: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Never Let Me Go The Mummy or Ramses the Damned The Vampire Armand Merrick

... was propped up in bed, and when I finished, I literally threw the book to the bottom of the bed. The agony! I just read Never let me go last year, and the day after finishing it, I *still* felt my heart being squeezed when I thought of it! Yes, I'm a sap.

... goes: Just five? Okay. No particular order. The Thirteenth Tale - D. Setterfield (but this one is number one) Never Let Me Go - K. Ishiguro Nora Jane: A Life in Stories - Ellen Gilchrist Trust - Cynthia Ozick Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis Honorable Mentions to Sharp Ob ...

... 44. Dispatches by Michael Herr 45. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 46. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 47. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 48. A Portrait of the Artistas a Young Man by James Joyce 49. The Castle by Franz Kafka 50. Amerika by Franz Kafka

... to travel, my desire to read was confined to learning factual information about the world. But, with Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, I remembered how much I love to get into a good character and decode the meaning of a well-written work of literature. My fictional reading was fun but ...

... Donohue 54. Survey Ship by Marion Zimmer Bradley 55. Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris 56. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 57. Godforsaken Sea by Derek Lundy 58. Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry 59. Aphrodite by Russell Andrews ...

>59 Because of Never Let Me Go I've actually spent the first half of The Unconsoled wondering if the people were real, or robots or clones! Mr Hoffman, the hotel manager, for example :P

I'd like to add Never Let Me Go to this list of depressing books. I just finished it and I'm going to have to start on something new right away to get that depressing taste out of my mouth. Why do people find bleak desolate things like this one so appealing? Do they prefer to read about it in ...

8. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro This has been my least favorite so far and it has put me in a bad mood. There were no new or noteworthy ideas in it. It's just depressing - although it is well written in places. I've written a longer comment on my 50 book challege post.

18. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro My first thought after closing this book was "Wow, that was depressing" - and it was indeed depressing. (It was also really boring and monotone in places) I got it off the 1001 list and I suppose it's well written (there are some nice descriptions of ...

I voted for The Book Thief The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Never Let Me Go

... to die, writes a letter to his 7-year-old son.) Another novel that deals quite blatantly with death is Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, a very grave and beautiful novel that deals with themes of death, bioethics, cloning, etc. Finally, Terry Tempest Williams' memoir, Refuge: An Unnatural ...

I voted for The Book Thief, My Sister's Keeper, and Never Let Me Go.

I voted for: My Sister's Keeper Time Stops for No Mouse Never Let Me Go

... Glass Wars by Frank Beddor How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Center of the World by Andreas Steinhofel Time Stops for No Mous ...

#31 - Be sure to let us(me) know what you think of them, lbw. I love the way Ishiguro writes. I read Never Let Me Go not too long ago, too.

... back on that above post I realise I should have actually suggested a book or two... How I live Now - Meg Rosoff Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro ...sort of a mix of YA and adult, depending on which part of the book you're reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chb ...

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro. Beautifully spare, thought-provoking, heartrending....

... Beholden 30. Nick Hornby - How to be Good 31. James Patterson - Along Came a Spider 32. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 33. Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha (currently reading)

I returned from the library with a number of great reads today: The Remains of the Day - I loved Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, so I am hoping this brings me more of his quiet, understated drama. The Thirteenth Tale, which the library held for me well past the date they said they would! ...

Two books I've read recently that keep getting mentioned together - Jo Walton's Farthing and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go. I read Farthing after looking forward to it for ages and having heard a lot about it, I picked up Never let me go without having any idea what it was about. ...

... New Year by Pearl S. Buck 31. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Jones 32. I Want to Go Home! by Korman 33. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 34. Good Women of China by Xinran 35. Castle in the Air by Diana Jones 36. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 37. Sw ...

... with you, judylou ~ my favorite for August and for the entire year so far is The Road. Brilliant! #17 I also loved Never Let Me Go when I read it a couple of years ago but like you felt that one Ishiguro was enough for awhile. This year I read When We Were Orphans and again, though ...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Beautifully written, heartbreaking story, thought-provoking. It was so melancholy, though, that I don't think I'll pick up one of his books for awhile.

... now because sometimes my life gets away from me. Maybe later. I'll start with August 2007. Finished August 2007: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Until I Find You - John Irving Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad A Multitude of Sins - Richard Ford Seducing the Demon - Erica J ...

Never Change by Elizabeth Berg Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

... done with Miller. Now I'm reading The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck. heatherlynn85: I will get around to reading Never Let Me Go, I will! I accidentally bought it in the wrong language ( I thought they would have translated the title, but no such luck) and gave that copy to my mom. Hen ...

I'm nearly finished with Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and then I will be starting Never Let Me Go.

... books that I start with & I know I'm just not in the space for them at the time. For example, when I first tried to read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro maybe a year ago, there was something that turned me off, but I tried again last week and found it to be a page-turner. I tried to ...

#119 Loved White Teeth, hated Never Let Me Go.

... t White Teeth by Zadie Smith Experience by Martin Amis The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I think I'm going to read the Kingsley Amis one next.

Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro - pretty creepy so far. Tropic of Cancer - I pick this up every couple of weeks and read a bit. It's not like it has a plot. Truly inspiring (and intimidating) for a writer. A Multitude of Sins - short stories about marriage and infidelity by Richard Ford. Quite ...

I just finished Never Let me Go which I thought was good. I had heard enough people on LT talk about how they didn't think the "big twist" at the end was surprising so I didn't expect to be shocked. I think going into it with that thought was good because it allowed me to just enjoy the author's ...

... and really enjoyed it so I've been wanting to read more by Dave Eggers. I'm also still reading Watership Down and Never Let me go.

--> #8 I really disliked Never Let Me Go, possibly because I didn't feel it lived up to all the hype about the "surprise" ending (which wasn't much of a surprise to me after reading the first chapter). I found reading narration by a supposedly 13-year old girl who was so self-absorbed ...

I'm reading Never Let me go which is good, but I haven't gotten too far into it. I really love Kazuo Ishiguro's quiet voice so far. I find myself thinking about the characters even when I'm not reading.

... Unsworth's Sacred Hunger and Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, Never Let Me Go, is definitely literary, but might also qualify as science fiction. I guess what I'm trying to say is there are genre books which have true literary ...

We Never Meant to go to Sea by Arthur Ransome She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith It Was on Fire When I lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? By Dr. Seuss Heads you Win, Tails I lose by Isabelle Holland

Today I purchased: Schooled by Gordon Korman (youth fiction) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (SO glad to finally have this!) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (too many recommendations to put this book off any longer...lol) Uncle John's Bathroom Re ...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Only One Way to Win at Lotto by Robert Serotic The Medic Monopoly by Ben H Bagdikian Chequers: The Prime Minister's Country House and its History by Norma Major The Book of the Die by Luke Rhinehart

Early Leaving by Judy Goldman Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro You Went Away by Timothy Findley Away by Jane Urquhart Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss I think I was sort of 'pushing it' with a couple of ...

... I replied. In Akenfield I had a choice between a giant clodhopping peasant or the piano teacher. Will grandfather never let me go?

... by jean-paul sartre pitied by not entitled by linda gordon no man is an island by thomas merton never let me go by kazuo ishiguro much ado about nothing by william shakespeare

#41: Yes it is! The subtlety of the book was what really attracted me to it. I compare it to The Time Traveller's Wife. Never Let Me Go is another outstanding book. I think people tend to misunderstand what the author was trying to do. If you go in expecting a shocking twist like the move Sixth ...

Never Let Me Go The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Beat the Devil

... I am, anyway), we think they need to be wordy in order to be effective. One of my favorite books from the past few years Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro was spoiled by a reviewer. Summarizing is okay, but giving away "spoilers" isn't. And yes, if you didn't like it, tell me why you ...

#39: Not yet MrStevens. I haven't read any Kazuo Ishiguro, although I have Never Let Me Go waiting for me on my shelf. I've heard mixed reviews about it and haven't been in quite the right mood for it yet. Is The Remains of the Day still your favorite so far?

I picked up a copy of Never Me Let Go and have just started it. Unfortunately the reviews that are printed on the inside covers do tend to give away the plot somewhat...I do wish publishers wouldn't do that! :( I need more discipline NOT to read them :P

... Northern Michigan and I am planning on catching up on my summer reading while sitting by the lake. I finally finished Never Let Me Go and I must admit I didn't care for it. I was very disappointed because I had heard such great things about it. Oh well. Last night I started The Thirte ...

... sale I picked up a bunch of books which are on the 1001 Books list: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Atonement by Ian McEwan Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- ...

... sale I picked up a bunch of books which are on the 1001 Books list: The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Atonement by Ian McEwan Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- ...

... Body Surfing: Anita Shreve 10. Eve Green: Susan Fletcher 11. Gentlemen and Players: Joanne Harris 12. Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro 13. The Five People You Meet In Heaven: Mitch Albom 14. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Jon McGregor 15. The Great ...

... by Sue Henry The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner Recently finished: Godforsaken Sea by Derek Lundy Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

... I thought about fiction books that are spiritually meaningful to me, and recently I read Kazuo Ishiguro's book Never let me go. It brought up the question wha does it mean to have lived life well, how essential to life is art, as well as to what extent is facing one's mortality ...

... state of things, despite their knowledge that things had once been different. The understated tone reminded me a bit of Never Let Me Go, which I also really enjoyed. I LOVED the final portion of the book - it was an awesome twist. At first I did not understand what I was reading. But ...

... state of things, despite their knowledge that things had once been different. The understated tone reminded me a bit of Never Let Me Go, which I also really enjoyed. I LOVED the final portion of the book - it was an awesome twist. At first I did not understand what I was reading. But ...

... up to pace. After the first 6 months of the year I am up to 48. June 40. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates 41. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 42. Saturday by Ian McEwan 43. Cujo by Stephen King 44. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

Paul Auster-Oracle Night Octavia E. Butler-Fledgling Jill Ciment-The Tattoo Artist Kazuo Ishiguro-Never Let Me Go James Sallis-Renderings

... Some of the best fiction I've read in the past couple years is deeply melancholy: Paul Auster's Oracle Night, Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and Dana Standridge's Lessons in Essence.

#151 burnett: I really hated Never Let Me Go. Way too much hype about the 'surprise' ending, which I figured out pretty early on.

Burnett--Have you read other Ishiguro' books? I loved The Remains of the Day. I expected so much from Never Let Me Go and I was disappointed. Although, I've heard from many people they thought the end redeemed it. jhowell--When I was reading Possession I got completly lost in that world; ...

#151 burnett I thought the exact same thing and I think made the same comment here too just a few weeks ago about Never let me go by the end of the book I had changed my mind and really liked it.

... Guin is a superior Womyn (so hard to write that 'word' without laughing hysterically??) writer? I wonder if Ishiguro's Never Let me Go would qualify as Dystopia? (perhaps a better example where the single conceit or 'point' is well-hidden so the novel's momentum remains unhindered?) This ...

I am currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. So far it's good, but not great. I have heard such good things about it that I hope it picks up!

Here are my picks for the second quarter: Final List: 1.Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2.Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro 3.The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 4.The sword and the scimitar David Ball 5.House of the Spirits Isabel Allende

#186 amandameale: I too loved Saturday, and having read it immediately following Never Let Me Go, I realized I really like the understated way both novels explored their themes. One could easily see mainstream thriller novels written around the same scenarios. The next few books on my TBR ...

... be able to spot them earlier on but I like them anyway. Her books that combine teenage/parent p.o.v. are really good. 26.Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro 5/5 Another top rating. What is a human? What is inhumane? Will be reading more from this author! 27.Life and times of the Thunderbolt Ki ...

... (reread) Penny Vincenzi 24.The favored child : a novel Philippa Gregory 3/5 25.Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 5/5 26.Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro 5/5 27.Life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid: a memoir Bill Bryson 5/5 28.Meridon : a novel Philippa Gregory 2.5/5 Attempted: The Road ...

... is looking like it may be successfull this time. I guess you have to ready for a book. And after all the mentions of Never let me go, I'll have to give that a go soon too.

I completed Never Let Me Go last night and I loved it. The quiet, unsettling tones, lurking behind everything. The way he managed to make all of this seem normal, the way the characters accepted their lots in life. And especially the way the rest of England appeared to be devoid of humanity, ...

>56: fannyprice I finished Never Let Me Go last night and loved it as well. It's definitely one of the more heartbreaking works I've read. As you said, the fact that the characters just accept their situations as normal, as their lot in life, really hits you hard. I wanted to grab them, hug ...

>53: TheTwoDs, I loved Never Let Me Go, especially how understated the tone was. I felt that aspect of it really conveyed the fact that for the characters, their lives were normal. I hope you enjoy it!

After the intensity of Black Water, I am now in modern day and futurish England in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. I am intrigued so far by the disquieting atmosphere.

I actually just started Never Let Me Go this morning and it's intriguing so far - three chapters in. Disquieting is probably the best way to describe it.

... I couldn't believe these were by the same author. Hmmmm... well, to be honest, I am in two minds about whether try Never Let Me Go. Reviews seem mixed. I loved The Remains of the Day also - it was my first from Ishiguro. I might try A Pale View of Hills next. The Unconsoled doesn't ...

I was disappointed with Never Let Me Go. I loved Remains of the Day. I couldn't believe these were by the same author. I'm now reading The Light in August

... of The Lord of the Rings. I will most likely finish Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates tonight. Up next will be Never Let Me Go, which will be my first Kazuo Ishiguro.

Just read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and will be starting Saturday by Ian McEwan next. Never Let Me Go had an interesting premise, but seemed to never live up to it's potential. 34/1001...3.4%.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro read for #22. This was one of the 1001 Books to read before you die

... by James Patterson Play with Fire by Dana Stabenow Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Carol Higgins Clark Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Dance With Me by Luanne Rice

I enjoyed Never Let Me Go too, but was frustrated by its insistent focus. It reminded me of great sci-fi books from several decades ago--a fabulous premise, several memorable scenes...but boy, the opportunities passed up were countless. I believe we could each quickly create a compelling ...

... on the road, kill him! by sheldon kopp think on these things by krishnamurti go ask alice by anonymous never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

Last week I read Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro it was also my first time reading this author. I picked it because it was the last book in the 1001 books you must read before you die and that for some reason appealed to me. I also noticed that his other books are in the list so it was a ...

Kiwiflowa, I'm with you on Never Let Me Go. It's one of the most powerful books I read last year and I thought about it long after I finished it. I finished The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tonight on the train. I'm actually kind of sorry I devoured it in 2 days -- it was too good ...

I finished reading Never let me go and the ending was very powerful to me infact I can't stop thinking about it. I have already traded the book with a work colleague and I told her don't cheat and read the end (she does that sometimes) and keep reading until the end (after reading the first 3rd I ...

I am reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro It's alright and nice to read but isn't gripping enough for me. Last week I read Nineteen minutes : a novel by Jodi Picoult and that was a great read!

Kazuo Ishiguro is absolutely my favorite contemporary writer. I wished The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go could've lasted forever. I didn't think An Artist of the Floating World was as good as his others, but even so, I closed that book feeling I had a lot to think about. I ...

My wife and I went tothe Houston Public Library book sale on Friday. We came home with: LT inspired these Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Others Julie and Julia: by Julie Powers Stories by Katherine Mansfiel ...

One of my favorites is Intercourses. However, the one that generates the most discussion is Safe Sex Never Tasted So Good. Even if you're not interested in cooking, just reading the names of the dishes is entertainment! One of my most hilarious moments was when I made a dish of rather ...

... read his earliest, A Pale View of Hills), followed by The Remains of the Day, When We Were Orphans and finally Never Let Me Go. I think that the first two of these are linked very heavily, almost to the point where they could be read as two different takes on the same story - as ...

... work, and I thought I would put my thoughts about the different novels on here for commentary. It's mostly about Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans, with healthy doses of An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day thrown in. On Never Let Me Go: Origina ...

... byOctavia E. Butler Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan Brother Roger of Taize's Essential Writings Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

17. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult 18. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro I know, these are pretty old books, but I've been re-reading them.

... Interesting about the novels by Kazuo Ishiguro that you read. I haven't read Remains of the Day but absolutely loved Never Let Me Go. However, I've read When We Were Orphans, which was a disappointment after having read Never Let Me Go.

... always very much want to like every book I read, and it is a great disappointment to me when I don't. For example, I read Never Let Me Go because The Remains of the Day by the same author is one of my favorite books. So I guess its not so much that I didn't like Never Let Me Go, as I was ...

I also loved Eats, Shoots and Leaves. However, I loved The Time Traveler's Wife and Never Let Me Go. How do you manage to read so many books in one month?

... by Umberto Eco - as much as I loved Foucault's Pendulum, I couldn't get into this one at all. Didn't finish. 10. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Very Brave New World-ish. I figured the plot out from the beginning and waited in vain for a clever plot twist at the end. 11. T ...

First two for March: 11. Never Let me Go - review 12. Daughter of Fortune - review Both very satisfying!

Shortride in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 Mar 2007 (Mar 11, 2007, 6:00pm) I just finished Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and have started Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway. vsmith in Bostonians : Obligatory Favorite Book Question (Mar 6, 2007, 8:36pm) ... Murakami's Windup Bird Chronicle, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, Colm Toiben's The Master, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. amandameale in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 5, 2007, 7:15am) #29 Skeakychu Add my name to the list of Never let Me Go fans. Kazuo Ishiguro writes in an economical and deceptively simple style. I can understand why the other reader lindascl (?) was concerned: first all the hype, then the relative simplicity of the book. I thought it was excellent - ... Joycepa in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 5, 2007, 5:17am) #51, #55--I thought Never Let Me Go was one of Ishiguro's most disturbing books. He writes about moral choices, but in this one, the moral failure is on a frightening scale. My problem is that I could readily believe that society can make such choices. I wound up crying at the end. He uses ... Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 5, 2007, 12:25am) #51 ~ So glad you ended up enjoying Never Let Me Go. It wasn't until I finished it that the full impact hit me. I think maybe it's the deceptively simple way Kazuo Ishiguro writes. I've got his When We Were Orphans on my TBR pile and can't wait to get started, plus I intend to read The R ... lindsacl in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 9:55pm) Just finished Never Let Me Go and despite my comments in previous posts today (#s 28, 37), in the end I really liked this book. This one will remain in my thoughts for a while ... quite haunting. Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 5:30pm) #37 I know what you mean, Lin. The same thing happened with me when I read Never Let Me Go last year ~ it was a bit challenging for me to get through, though the writing was good and I actually got involved emotionally with the characters and the situation. But I'm glad I stuck with it, ... lindsacl in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 1:58pm) >29: SqueakyChu, it's not that I don't like Never Let Me Go, there's something about it that does keep calling me to sit down and read. And although I can't put words to it, I was somehow expecting something more. >31: marymanhattan, I loved both The Namesake and Year of Magical Thinking. ... LouisBranning in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 10:50am) SqueakyChu, I've read Never Let Me Go twice and think it ranks right behind The Remains of the Day as one of Ishiguro's finest novels. And couldn't agree more that the 'huge' Stories by T.C.Boyle is just one short-story-treat after another, an irresistible collection. SqueakyChu in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 8:42am) --> 28 I'm sorry to hear about Never Let Me Go. I just bought it two days ago. I'm currently reading A Pale View of Hills by the same author, Kazuo Ishguro and like the autor's style of writing and story very much. I was told that Ishiguro's books vary a great deal from one to ... lindsacl in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Mar 4, 2007, 8:09am) ... and adding those I'd missed ... generally books I'd read in high school or university. Anyway, right now I'm reading Never Let Me Go. I'm not sure why this is on the list as compared to, say, Pride and Prejudice. However I do think the list will be useful whenever my TBR pile becomes ... lindsacl in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mar 2007 (Mar 4, 2007, 8:06am) Coming off the "high" of last week's Suite Francaise, I am now reading Never Let Me Go. I am about halfway through and am slightly underwhelmed. blakefraina in Lambda Rising : First Post - Introduce yourself! (Feb 28, 2007, 9:06am) I absolutely adored Lust! I dreaded reading it at first because I started Ryman's other book Was several times and found it so depressing that I couldn't get very far into it. But Lust is a delightful work of fantasy. avaland in Science Fiction Fans : Contemporary social issues in SF (Feb 28, 2007, 7:47am) ... eh? Eva Hoffman's "The Secret" addresses cloning through a young woman's struggle with self-identity. Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is also a cloning "awful warning" novel (any synopsis might be a SPOILER) Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper tells the story of a teenager who was a ... amandameale in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Feb 26, 2007, 10:46pm) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: loved it. I found it understated and and moving. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee: I love the author and quite liked the book but it certainly was strange. I found it difficult to draw conclusions from the story but noted the themes of vulnerability/ageing; ... lindsacl in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came into Your Home Today? (Feb 21, 2007, 7:48pm) ... and pick up my request at the desk, I need to experience the library ... and so inevitably I walk out with another book: Never let me Go, which I guess is 2nd on the TBR now. strandbooks in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Feb 19, 2007, 11:47am) This weekend I read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. In my opinion this book does not belong on the list. I highly doubt in 100 years this book will still be published. There are so many holes in the story, and it is very disjointed. I can't believe this came from the same writer who wrote The R ... Zeesosa in What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #3 (Feb. 2007) (Feb 7, 2007, 11:25pm) ... Dog Behavior Answer Book by Arden Moore These were buy two paperbacks get one free at Borders. Today, I bought: Let Me Go by Helga Schneider Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson How to Save Your Own Life byErica Jong ... GreyHead in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 27 January 2007 (Jan 26, 2007, 5:44pm) ... trip though I did find the time to enjoy Vanish by Tess Gerritsen, great travel reading; and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go poignant and delightful, all the quotes made it seem black but I didn't find it so at all. Morphidae in 50 Book Challenge : Ryvre's 100 (Jan 19, 2007, 11:30am) I loved War for the Oaks and also enjoyed Never Let Me Go and Uglies. What did you think of Ill Wind? ryvre in 50 Book Challenge : Ryvre's 100 (Jan 18, 2007, 6:29pm) ... by Jim Butcher Grave Peril by Jim Butcher Summer Knight by Jim Butcher Ill Wind by Rachel Caine Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Virtu by Sarah Monette Pretties by Scott Westerfeld Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wh ... ryvre in 50 Book Challenge : Ryvre's 100 (Jan 18, 2007, 2:22pm) ... by Jim Butcher Grave Peril by Jim Butcher Summer Knight by Jim Butcher Ill Wind by Rachel Caine Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Virtu by Sarah Monette Pretties by Scott Westerfeld Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wh ... Shortride in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came into Your Home Today? (Jan 17, 2007, 12:43am) ... card: Housekeeping vs. the Dirt and Fledgling. Bought at the local Waldenbooks going-out-of-business sale for 40% off: Never Let Me Go and The Eyre Affair. fyrefly98 in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 11, 2007, 8:51am) In general, I'm okay with endings left unresolved, or even non-happy resolutions. Never Let Me Go didn't feel unresolved to me - we weren't left wondering what happened to the characters. And it wasn't like they fought and lost, which would have been okay too. They were just so passive and ... amandameale in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 11, 2007, 7:47am) cathf, fyrefly,etc: I was quite happy with the ending of Never Let Me Go. I don't mind a book (or a movie) not providing a resolution, I find that it makes me think more, and feel more about the subject. fyrefly98 in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 10, 2007, 3:08pm) Cathf - I felt exactly the same way about Never Let Me Go - it just seemed like everyone gave up, just... "Oh. Well, that's how it is." Not satisfying at all. cathf in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 10, 2007, 2:37pm) ... but none of them came across, they were just flat and the plot was stupid. The other one that irritated me was Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Beautifully written and no problem at all to finish, but the ending was frustrating and unsatisfying, I thought anyway. hazelk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 6 January 2007 (Jan 7, 2007, 3:19pm) ... The People's Act of Love was one of my favourite reads of the last year. I couldn't put it down. Have nearly finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. hazelk in Book talk : With what books are you ushering in your New Year? (Jan 5, 2007, 9:10am) I'm half way through Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go and am enjoying his spare style and the quiet revelations (I'm repeating what I've written on the What Are You Reading Now group). hazelk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 6 January 2007 (Jan 5, 2007, 9:07am) I'm half way through Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and enjoying its spare prose and the sudden quiet revelations Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Jan 2, 2007, 10:14pm) In my earlier post, I listed only four favorite books I read in 2006: Pride and Prejudice The Great Gatsby Never Let Me Go Jonathan Strange In December, I read one that I can add to that list: London by Edward Rutherfurd Honorable mention to The Penelopiad by Atwood. (e ... hazelk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Dec 2006 (Jan 2, 2007, 3:58am) Heartened to read it wasn't just me i.e. The Secret History. Am now into Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro whose spare style I really appreciate - take note Martin Amis (yeh, fat chance)! Morphidae in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Jan 1, 2007, 11:29am) ... The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Tied for second place are: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Edited for typo and ... Killeymoon in What did YOU buy today? : What did YOU buy today? Message Board #2 (Dec 30, 2006, 10:50am) ... rfield Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Go by John Clellon Holmes Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac The Crying of L ... wonderlake in What Are You Reading Now? : Look what I got for Xmas! (Dec 25, 2006, 3:52pm) ... my dad bought it from a jumble sale and is out of print now, so bonus points to him for getting a copy :) I gave my dad Never Let Me Go, and my OH The Vegan Passport and A Vegan Taste of the Middle East. My dad's book was from Waterstones, on offer so I also "treated" myself to We Need ... lizzier in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 23 Dec 2006 (Dec 23, 2006, 5:44pm) ... around literary sites I have read about e.g. Sheer Blue Bliss, A change of climate by Hilary Manteland of course, Never let me go, to mention but three. I wonder if I would have any takers? I noted your enthusiasm for Transit of Venus in earlier postings and am working my way ... Killeymoon in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 18, 2006, 10:24am) Messages 31 and 51 - I'm with you on Never Let Me Go. I liked it okay, but not as much as I'd thought I might. I don't usually buy a lot of "new" releases, and I try not to get my hopes up too high with the hype! I just couldn't seem to make any kind of emotional connection to the characters - ... HelloAnnie in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 18, 2006, 9:16am) ... have found, and might not have picked up if I were on my own, so I'm glad the book club introduced me to it. I read Never Let Me Go and loved it! I agree with some of the others who feel it's challenging to read a book after the hype machine has done its work. I read the book fresh, ... _Zoe_ in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 17, 2006, 5:02pm) Re Never Let Me Go - how much do you think your expectations effect how much you like a book? I really liked it, and I had only read one editorial review on amazon and hadn't heard anyone raving about it. But I find that when something has been really hyped-up, I'm a lot more likely to dislike it. ... warbrideslass in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 17, 2006, 4:22pm) morphidae, I read Never Let me Go yesterday and felt the same. After seeing it come up on these groups over and over again I really thought it was going to be an amazing book. I felt very let down. It wasn't anything like I expected it to be. I guess I'd just call it an odd book. It never really ... hazelk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 17, 2006, 9:53am) ... Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard and will be interested to see if it lives up to expectations. Have just borrowed Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro from the library. Otherwise I've lots of non-fiction to catch up with such as The Classical World:An epic history of Greece and Rome ... Morphidae in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 16 Dec 2006 (Dec 16, 2006, 9:35pm) I just finished Never Let Me Go that I found pleasant but not as terrific as others have lead me to believe. Also, finished Aerie by Mercedes Lackey. I'm glad I got it from the library. Her stuff is so uneven. Some I adore, others are just blah. Next, I'm going to attempt to finish The Adven ... Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dec 12, 2006, 11:45pm) Yes, I agree with Amanda ~ while I was in the middle of Never Let Me Go, I was half wishing I didn't have to read it (for a book club), but then after I finished it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I want to read it again, because the writing is so good and the story & the characters have ... fyrefly98 in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dec 12, 2006, 4:16pm) Zoe, Storeetllr, tunarubber - For everyone who's got Never Let Me Go on their lists, I've got a question... How naive vs. spoiled were you before you read it? I just finished it this afternoon, and while I liked it, I wasn't blown away like so many others seem to be. I'm wondering if ... wonderlake in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 11, 2006, 7:36am) ... enjoying TWF although a little stomach churning to read on lunchbreaks. I'm trying to track down a (cheap eBay) copy of Never Let Me Go for my dad's Xmas present after enjoying reading it earlier this year. atia in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 10, 2006, 11:06am) ... too big to carry around, I started reading Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day at the same time. I only recently read Never let me go, which easily was one of the best books I've read in years, and I'm already loving The Remains of the Day as well. hazelk in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 10, 2006, 10:07am) #22: Ishiguro is a really good writer. When you've finished Never Let me Go try his Remains of the Day - excellent. Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 9, 2006, 6:35pm) ... (in prehistoric times) a bit tedious but which has now (as of 1078 A.D.) become a real page-turner. #6 and #15 - I read Never Let Me Go for a book club earlier this year. It received mixed reviews from members of the club, but it's one of the best books I've read all year ~ maybe in the ... Morphidae in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 9, 2006, 1:28pm) ... Walls of Traditional Religion." For fun reading, I'm either going to read the YA book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld or Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. fyrefly98 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 (Dec 8, 2006, 10:50pm) ... really quite good, considering that my previous exposure to the story was of the Mickey Mouse variety. Plan on starting Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro tomorrow. I'm also currently reading Sea Dragon Heir by Storm Constantine... I picked up the new paperback a few weeks ago for $2.25 ... ggchickapee in Political Conservatives : Conservative novelists (Dec 8, 2006, 12:13pm) I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and was surprised to find that it has a very conservative bent. In fact, it takes a conservative stand on one of the most controversial issues of the day (no, not teen smoking). Unfortunately, the point of the story unfolds gradually, so ... HelloAnnie in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dec 8, 2006, 8:09am) ... ion: The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland Non-Fiction: The Glass Castle a memoir by Jeannette Walls Don't Eat This Book! by Morgan Sp ... Storeetllr in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dec 7, 2006, 2:56pm) Pride and Prejudice The Great Gatsby Never Let Me Go Jonathan Strange Hmm, that's only four, and I can't think of another to list, so I think I'll hold off in case I read another favorite in December. Morphidae in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 Dec 2006 (Dec 3, 2006, 3:52pm) ... Need to finish LifeKeys Discover Who You Are and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Lastly, I'll probably start Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro (contemporary fiction) or The Queen's Fool by Gregory (historical fiction.) _Zoe_ in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dec 2, 2006, 1:36pm) ... by Daniel Keyes The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Breaking of Northwall by Paul O. Williams keren7 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Nov 2006 (Nov 27, 2006, 12:55pm) I finished Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro and kind of expected a little more from the book - the ending was dissapointing to me I am now reading A portrait of the Artist as a young Man by James Joyce and I am really enjoyng it - I have been to Dublin and it's cool to read a book ... keren7 in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Nov 27, 2006, 12:47pm) Hi Cabelgy I really enjoyed Never let me go, and I finished it in 2 days - it was a good read but disturbing I am now reading A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and I am actually really enjoying it - I travelled to Dublin last year and it's nice to picture parts ... cabegley in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Nov 26, 2006, 11:39pm) I really enjoyed Never Let Me Go, keren7, and passed it along to my husband as soon as I finished it. I'm now reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. keren7 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 18 Nov 2006 (Nov 20, 2006, 6:06pm) Will start reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro Finished Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt which was an interesting non fiction read - one chapter title is "If drug dealers make so much money why do they still live with their mothers." keren7 in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Nov 20, 2006, 5:48pm) I am now reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro amandameale in The Prizes : IMPAC/Dublin Prize (Nov 16, 2006, 7:38am) ... J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man; E.L. Doctorow, The March; Kate Grenville, The Secret River; Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; Nicole Krauss, The History of Love; Marina Lezycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian; Ian McEwan, Saturday; James Meek, The ... wyvernfriend in Book talk : Impac Long List (Nov 6, 2006, 12:07pm) I-L Silence of the Grave Never let me go Beasts of No Nation All for Love by Dan Jacobson In Lucia's Eyes The Successor Empire Rising The Mermaid Chair The Captive Wife The Historian The History of Love A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 1972: a novel ... cabegley in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Oct 2006 (Nov 1, 2006, 9:30pm) I just finished Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book absorbed me. I'd read Brave New World recently, and I believe this is a response to that book. I found Never Let Me Go much more engaging and thought provoking (I think it's a bit of an unfair assessment on my part, since it's at ... fermat in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Oct 2006 (Nov 1, 2006, 11:36am) I loved reading Never Let Me Go thought it rather apt in our current times. Have just finished reading My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen enjoyed the concept of time travel. I am just started Amy Tan's Saving Fish from Drowning finding it interesting so far despite my ... kperfetto in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Oct 28, 2006, 9:06pm) Never Let Me Go was one of my favorite books of last year. (If you don't already know the plot, do not read the Amazon reviews as some of them reveal too much.) cabegley in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Oct 28, 2006, 6:31pm) I'm about to start Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. I just finished Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks, which was excellent. cabegley in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Oct 2006 (Oct 28, 2006, 6:29pm) I just finished Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter, which was gripping and thought-provoking. I'll be starting Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go tonight. Still listening to The Moonstone and Dancing Shoes (there's too much time when my kids don't want to listen to a book in the car--we may be on ... Eurydice in BookMooching : Books You've Mooched (Oct 27, 2006, 1:41pm) Ryvre, I tried to post this before, but sincerest thanks. Never let me go could be, if not the title, perhaps a subtitle on each of Ishiguro's works! :) It's hard giving up The Unconsoled, but that's what I get for letting it sit on my shelves for six years, unread! I flipped ... ryvre in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Oct 2006 (Oct 25, 2006, 1:57pm) ... KromesTomes- Thanks for the recommendation. I ordered The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans as soon as I finished Never Let Me Go. I'll be moving them to the top of my to be read pile as soon as they arrive. ryvre in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Oct 2006 (Oct 24, 2006, 12:30pm) I gave up on To Serve and Submit for now, and moved on to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm about two thirds of the way through it, and I love it. I just picked up a couple more of Kazuo Ishiguro's books to read next. ryvre in BookMooching : Books You've Mooched (Oct 23, 2006, 8:48pm) ... you've got a couple more points now. I just mooched When We Were Orphans and The Unconsoled from you. I mooched Never Let Me Go a few weeks ago, and I'm in love with Kazuo Ishiguro's writing style. slindy in Cover Design Junkies : Top five cover designs (Oct 19, 2006, 3:22pm) ... _SCMZZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3. Orlando, A Biography http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099478285.01._SX50_SCMZZZZZZZZ_.jpg 4. Never Let Me Gohttp://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SX50_SCMZZZZZZZZ_.jpg 5. To the Lighthousehttp://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141183411.01._SX50_SCMZZZZZ ... HelloAnnie in Read YA Lit : What are you Reading in October? (Oct 17, 2006, 7:48pm) I just finished I am the Messenger and loved it. I am about 35 pages into Never Let Me Go and not sure how I feel about it so far. It looks like a quick read. HelloAnnie in Read YA Lit : Oct./Nov. Discussion--I Am The Messenger (Oct 17, 2006, 4:46pm) ... having an amazing time! Can't find a good used bookstore, though. Did use my educator discount card at a Borders to pick up Never Let Me Go and I'm a Stranger Here Myself. amandameale in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 (Oct 15, 2006, 9:49am) AndrewL: I read Never Let Me Go last year and found it very moving. I also recall describing it as understated, and this would be due to Ishiguro's style. Simple, economical writing can be as effective as poetic writing and I think that this is part of Ishiguro's skill: for me, he communicates ... LouisBranning in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 (Oct 14, 2006, 7:49pm) I've read Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go a couple of times already, Andrew, and you might wait until you're through with it, and have had maybe just a little time to absorb it thoroughly, before making any hard judgments on it. As far as I'm concerned, it's not only one of his better novels, but one ... AndrewL in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 (Oct 13, 2006, 7:25pm) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm about a third the way through this, my first Ishiguro novel. Certainly not what I was expecting, very interesting and intriguing so far. More than likely, I'll be reading more of his works. Also, skimming over On Literature by Umberto Eco. I ... cabegley in BookMooching : Books You've Mooched (Sep 27, 2006, 10:33pm) In addition to Under the Volcano (above), I've now received Arcadia by Jim Crace, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Still waiting for The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst) and Under the Skin (Michel Faber). So far, I've sent out Tender at the Bone (Ruth Reichl), Drinking Coffe ... cabegley in 1001 Books to read before you die : Which of the 1001 are you currently reading? (Sep 16, 2006, 10:34am) ... read Brave New World. It looks like I'll be taking a break from the 1001 list for a little while, but I'm hoping to get Never Let Me Go through bookmooch soon. bookgrl in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Sep 2006 (Sep 14, 2006, 3:59am) ... th - Fables - Animal Farm - Fables - Storybook Love - 3 romantica titles (100 page e-books) Up next, to finish up Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru and a few in-process books, along with the rest of Y and Fables (they're on the way). nohrt4me in Dystopian novels : Distopian classics? (Aug 26, 2006, 12:17pm) ... New World, Animal Farm and 1984 are the no-brainers. Ditto Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies. I've also got Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, and need to add A Canticle for Liebowitz (out of print but available used at Amazon) and The Sheep Look Up. I would also ... LouisBranning in The Prizes : The Booker (Aug 5, 2006, 12:51pm) ... his use of the language are really the main aspects of his work that I find the most attractive. I thought Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go was by far the best book of last year's final Booker bunch, a novel that will be read by a great many people for a long, long time to come. sycoraxpine in The Prizes : The Booker (Aug 5, 2006, 12:16pm) ... Sea, oddly.) What did you think? My impression is that many fewer people read it than most of the other short list books (Never Let me Go or On Beauty, for instance), so I am curious about it. nicolettablu in Audiobooks : Audiobooks Message Board (Aug 2, 2006, 1:58am) ... Match Me If You Can, read by Anna Fields. I listened to that one on the beach, it was great! Emilia Fox's reading of Never Let Me Go was very good as well although in the beginning I did have problems with her strong British accent.

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