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Ann M
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Sep 02, 2007 09:44PM

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I can see people feeling the same way about Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. What really happens? He drives around the country for a few days. Yet it is one of my favorite books.
I'm interested to hear what other people have to say. Thanks for starting the discussion!


On the other hand, I really liked The Unconsoled. I feel like people wandering around a foggy and vaguely sinister Eastern Europe while filled with ennui is very appropriate.
Never Let Me Go and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale should be used in writing classes as examples of how /not/ to write a moral/political book. (Julian Barnes' England, England could be included too, but at least his book is funny.) Good examples? I'd suggest M.J. Engh's Arslan, and DeLillo's White Noise.

I must disagree with Ben as I didn't feel like the message was being clubbed into me. Some moral message stories are so filled with self-righteous indignation about x that it's unbearable, but Never Let Me Go, mostly due to its choice of narrator, sidesteps that. That is, after finishing the novel, I felt invited to question as opposed to being forced upon with the argument and answer.





