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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Feb 21, 2015 02:04PM
It is interesting to read your review of this book. I liked the book a lot, and I think one of the reasons it resonated with me so much was perhaps because it put me back into an idealised version of my school days, and then turned that into something quite dark and disturbing. I think it helped as well that when I read the book, I had no idea of the story or where it was going to go. I thought it was quite a shocking and thought-provoking book about the value of human life and relationships, and it was a book that stayed with me for some time afterwards.
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Well, that's the joy of books - we all like different things. Though primarily we look for something that speaks to our own experience of the world and this book didn't work for me - it's all subjective though !
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