Never Let Me Go in Pick-a-Shelf

Aug 08, 2012 Lynai rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebook, favorites

Wow, now I know why most of my friends are raving how good this book is. One of my best reads of the year, so far. A more detailed post coming up.

***UPDATE***

How do I begin to write something about a book as marvellously written as Never Let Me Go ? A mere cursory Google search will result in numerous reviews on this book far better than I can come up with. Still, I will try my best to write down my thoughts with what pathetic writing skills I have because I just have to say something or else ...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Lindsay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, fiction, 1001, z2011

A really interesting story with wonderful main characters. The sense of menace and inevitability that pervades the book is skillfully done, as well as the urge to try and change the future which is sure to come.

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Sep 09, 2010 Ozma rated it did not like it

Shelves: unfinished-pulled-the-bookmark

I couldn't finish this book. Way too wordy, too A.D.D., and too bizarre. Is it a sci-fi novel or not? What the heck is going on? Why does the narrator keep jumping around? I was hoping to read it in advance of the movie coming out with Keira Knightley (whom I like), but I just couldn't do it. I flipped ahead to several pages and came across a love scene that, on its face, was fine, but the thought of reading the full scene semi-repulsed me. This book ruined my day yesterday. So I am kicking it t ...more

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Feb 13, 2011 Teena R. rated it it was ok

I'm so not a lit-fic person. Phillip K. Dick, please! ...more

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Aug 28, 2014 Bea rated it liked it · review of another edition

Set in England in post wartime. The story focuses on the lives of cloned children who are raised as body parts for cures to disease. Told from the prospective of the children and their understanding of their world.

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