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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Start date: May 1, 2014

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Nov 08, 2018 Stil de scriitor rated it liked it · review of another edition

Să nu mă părăsești este o carte bună, are idei interesante, dar nu pot spune că s-a ridicat la nivelul așteptărilor mele. Eu sincer nu prea am înțeles acțiunea cărții și m-a intrigat faptul că mi-aș fi dorit puțin mai mult suspans și acțiune. Repet, este o carte bună, merită să o citiți, părerea mea e subiectivă. Autorul japonez, Kazuo Ishiguro, a luat în 2017 premiul Nobel pentru literatură și vă dați seama că nu oricine reușește așa ceva.

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Apr 20, 2012 Ra rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nypl

Part of the attraction of reading this book was not knowing much about its plot, so I will leave out some key aspects of it in my review.

The narrator Kathy reminisces about her life in an exclusive boarding school, whose children were sometimes referred to as special. Why they were special, and the common thread that bound them all is slowly revealed in this story.

The author uses the rambling conversation style of the narrator, filling in gaps between anecdotes and going sometimes on tangents to ...more

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Apr 03, 2011 Kay rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, modern-fiction, fantasy_sci-fi, audiobooks

Ultimately I found this tale too languid and introspective to arouse much interest. Kathy, the central character, reminisces on her childhood at length, and the reader senses (or hopes) that something shattering will happen, but it never really does. At one point, Tommy, Kathy's lover, walks into a field and has a meltdown, but that's about it. I found myself wanting to take Kathy by the shoulders and shake her. ...more

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May 09, 2012 Astrid Lim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bbi, literature, dystopian, british, 1001-books

So, I am a bit torn about this book. The premise is really great, about a mysterious school where a bunch of kids (aka clones) are studying and preparing themselves for the inevitable fate in their future: becoming donors for "real people". But the narration is soooo slow, the same problem I always faced when reading British books. It's dark and gloomy, sadly it lacks of that longing feeling I hoped to find when reading it. ...more

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May 08, 2015 Nikki Morse rated it really liked it

Probably more like a 3.5 - really stunning and unique, but the transitions were repetitive and got annoying. "I wouldn't have believed it if it weren't for what happened next..." I loved the roll out of information - not just the meaning of the role they were in, but also the secrets they kept from each other, the ways they lied to themselves and others to maintain some sanity. ...more

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Sep 28, 2011 Tok rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-i-own

มีความรู้สึกแปลกๆ คือมันเล่าเรื่องแบบไม่ปูอะไรทั้งนั้น เล่าแบบไม่สนใจว่าคนอ่านจะรู้หรือเปล่าว่าอะไรคืออะไร แล้วก็เล่าแบบเป็นห้วงคำนึงนึกถึงสิ่งนี้แล้วทอดไปเรื่อยๆ (แต่เราจะไม่งงกับลำดับเวลาขนาดนั้น) แน่นอนว่าส่วนตัวก็พอโอเคกับการเล่าเรื่อง ชอบการบรรยายที่ให้เห็นบรรยากาศของสถานที่ซึ่งน่าจะสวยมากๆ

แต่ทำไมเราไม่อินกับเรื่องความรักของหนังสือเล่มนี้เลยล่ะ คือเราก็รู้สึกเสียดาย เพียงแต่การบรรยายของตัวละครตอนแรกๆมันไม่ได้ไปในทิศทางที่จะทำให้ตอนหลังเรารู้สึกเสียดายมากๆนะ ความสัมพันธ์ของทั้งสามก็เป็นไปในแ มีความรู้สึกแปลกๆ คือมันเล่าเรื่องแบบไม่ปูอะไรทั้งนั้น เล่าแบบไม่สนใจว่าคนอ่านจะรู้หรือเปล่าว่าอะไรคืออะไร แล้วก็เล่าแบบเป็นห้วงคำนึงนึกถึงสิ่งนี้แล้วทอดไปเรื่อยๆ (แต่เราจะไม่งงกับลำดับเวลาขนาดนั้น) แน่นอนว่าส่วนตัวก็พอโอเคกับการเล่าเรื่อง ชอบการบรรยายที่ให้เห็นบรรยากาศของสถานที่ซึ่งน่าจะสวยมากๆ

แต่ทำไมเราไม่อินกับเรื่องความรักของหนังสือเล่มนี้เลยล่ะ คือเราก็รู้สึกเสียดาย เพียงแต่การบรรยายของตัวละครตอนแรกๆมันไม่ได้ไปในทิศทางที่จะทำให้ตอนหลังเรารู้สึกเสียดายมากๆนะ ความสัมพันธ์ของทั้งสามก็เป็นไปในแบบหัวอ่อน กลัวๆ หยิ่งๆ ซึ่งส่วนใหญ่เป็นไปในแบบเฟคๆของคนเหนือกว่าปนกับความหวังดีของคนคิดดีนะ

อย่างไรก็ตามการสรุปหนังสือด้วย genre อะไรก็ตามแต่ เป็นการลดคุณค่าของหนังสือไปมากทีเดียว คือไม่ต้องไปสนใจมันดีกว่า

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Sep 13, 2010 Jen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, british-literature, books-that-changed-me

This book is absolutely heart breaking and so subtly written. Characters rarely discuss their feelings up front and that's how the book progresses. There is obviously something different about the students of Hailsham but no one ever says what it is. Yet throughout the book the secrets between the characters and about who they are slowly unravel. To divulge anything would do the book a disservice. All I can say is that it's definitely worth a read and much of the last quarter of this book moved ...more

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Feb 20, 2011 hannah rated it really liked it

Shelves: novel

Like the book better than the film. Like it much more than The Remains of the Day, which is the only other Ishiguro book I've read. There seem to be a recurring theme in his books about taking pride in one's job. I am impressed by the writer's imagination, as I would have never envisioned the life stories of the clones. The story is a bit saddening, about unalterable fate and all that. If I had read the story a few years back, I probably would have written a good paper for the bioethics course. ...more

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