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never let me go....
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I started this book full of anticipation and was quickly let down . The writing is good - technically - and it has that graduate of University of East Anglia creative writing feel to it but the content was tedious and the characters flat and simplistic. It's a romp around a public school dressed as some sort of dystopian epic. I can see why it was short listed for the Man Booker prize it has all the ingredients. Ishiguro is a good writer trapped in a world of middle class angst. To be completely honest I gave up after reading 75% of the book it was so boring - maybe it's me - my life bears no resemblance to the people he writes about and I don't engage with them, like Ian McEwan's Atonement or Amis's London Fields - I just don't care - write well - It's essential but please also write interesting.
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Angels stand corrected...
I have to have a blog...the site told me, my publisher told me, my publicist told me, and even my turkish barber told me, as he was administering the finest of close shaves. So I thought I had better
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