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This book checks a lot of boxes for me: lots of serious themes to think about, a great discussion book, a story that raises moral questions that I don't have clear answers to, the knowledge that this book will stay with me, because I know I will think about this book for a long time to come.
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It's deeply weird. And kind of creepy. I can't say I enjoyed reading it, exactly. The removed yet quietly tragic tone that works so beautifully in The Remains of the Day just doesn't work here. Despi ...more
And yet.
It's deeply weird. And kind of creepy. I can't say I enjoyed reading it, exactly. The removed yet quietly tragic tone that works so beautifully in The Remains of the Day just doesn't work here. Despi ...more
Ow. Ow. This book is so specific and controlled and careful, like it’s narrator. It makes one think about the specific moral issue of dehumanizing someone for a specific difference in order to profit from their existence and yet not consider oneself a monster. And what it means, fundamentally, to be human.
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