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So monotonously conversational about details that are irrelevant. Make it 100 pages, call it a short story, and it'd be way better. (  ) edgecase | Jun 5, 2020 |  Interesting book. I liked that the voice stayed consistently in her own world, in that she didn't ask the same questions the reader would have. I would call it sci-fi lite, good for literary fiction fans who want to try something different. (  ) nancyjean19 | Jun 3, 2020 | Interesting, but very very slow. From the beginning starts a chronicle of Kathy of her life in Hailsham. While it is not quite bad, it's not that enjoyable either - and with that lukewarm narrative the book failed to stick in my mind. (  ) MahiShafiullah | May 25, 2020 | Excellent dystopian storytelling in Never Let Me Go – not loud, not ostentatious, not yelling "THIS IS A DYSTOPIA, GET IT?!" at every opportunity. The narrator's voice was extremely well-done – strong, recognisable, but realistic at the same time. The unveiling of their lived reality was slow, and good – it allowed you to stay a step ahead, without that victorious feeling of having pulled one over the book. Interesting how the world described is terribly depressing, yet the book didn't once feel sad or depressing or tedious to me. ( ) _rixx_ | May 24, 2020 | i've had this since february and only read 80 pages. safe to say it's not happening. sorry tbp friends hexenlibrarian | May 19, 2020 |
 Ishiguro is extremely good at recreating the special, oppressive atmosphere of school (and any other institution, for that matter)—the cliques that form, the covert rivalries, the obsessive concern with who sat next to whom, who was seen talking to whom, who is in favor at one moment and who is not.  The eeriest feature of this alien world is how familiar it feels. It's like a stripped-down, haiku vision of children everywhere, fending off the chaos of existence by inventing their own rules. "Never Let Me Go" is marred by a slapdash, explanatory ending that recalls the stilted, tie-up-all-the loose-ends conclusion of Hitchcock's "Psycho." The remainder of the book, however, is a Gothic tour de force that showcases the same gifts that made Mr. Ishiguro's 1989 novel, "The Remains of the Day," such a cogent performance. This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been. Belongs to Publisher SeriesGradiva (112) Keltainen kirjasto (367) Keltainen pokkari (40) Tascabili Einaudi (Super ET) — 1 more ハヤカワepi文庫 (51) Has the adaptationHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a student's study guide
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