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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Start date: January 21, 2015

Finish date: January 29, 2015

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Oct 02, 2024 Sarah rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, dystopia, popsugar-2024

Popsugar 2024 Reading Challenge: A book with an unreliable narrator.

The concept behind the book is interesting but the execution was not for me at all.

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Apr 20, 2010 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, thriller

I listened to this book, and was ready for it to be over, but really really enjoyed it. The reader was excellent and the writing was so wonderful. The topic was difficult, interesting and maddening all at the same time. I kept waiting for something really awful to happen, some horrible violent or rage filled incident. And when there wasn’t, I felt like what did actually happen was just as horrific. The nothingness. Nothing happened, because nothing was supposed to happen. And I kept wondering wh ...more

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Mar 21, 2011 Jane rated it liked it

"Like" is the wrong word to use for my experience of this book. It was heartbreaking, uncomfortable, frustrating and ultimately rewarding to read, but I don't know if I would have finished if it hadn't been for the discipline of the book club. I thought about the fact that this isn't a story just for the three main characters. We all have such a short time in which we are alive. And bargaining for more is part of the human condition. I also wondered why no one tried to escape. I guess the donors ...more

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Apr 28, 2015 Megan rated it liked it

Shelves: bookclub-ish, sci-fi-fantasy, finished-2015

Part of me wonders why Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth are so resigned to their fates. But in real life, there are many terrible things that societies have become resigned to over time I suppose. Which may be the point of the novel.

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Jun 17, 2011 Kristin Brandt rated it liked it

I had a really hard time getting into this book for some reason or another. It just could not capture and hold my attention for long periods of time. The concept is interesting though, just thought it built too slowly.

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