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Never Let Me Go
K. Ishiguru
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After I finished reading this book the first thing I thought was 'WOW', I even had a little tear in my eye, it takes a good book to make that kind of impression on me. But......
This book I found very easy to put down and forget about, it wasn't what I would class as a page turner. It seemed that with every sentence Ishiguro was trying to tell you something, make you think and sometimes I just want to read and not have to think. But then I raced through the last eighty or so pages as the story came together, hence the proclamation 'WOW'.
The narrator of the story, Kathy, she's looking back on her school days at Hailsham and afterwards as a carer. You would be forgiven at first for thinking that Hailsham is just another public school but you soon realize that it certainly not that. Basically all students of Hailsham are clones farmed for thier organs. after leaving school thier only role in life is to donate, sometimes they donate one or two times before they 'complete' (die) sometimes as in the case of Kathies friend Tommy they may donate four times before completing, and that's it they know no other life, you're either a donator or a carer like Kathy, who would most probably herself become a donator later in life, after-all that was what she was farmed for.
So our narrator is looking back on her school days with her friends and trying to piece everything together and it's only when the book picks up pace in the last eighty or so pages that kathy is made aware of the role in life of Hailsham students.
As I was reading I was thinking to myself why doesn't Kathy and Tommy run away from this life? but I guess it's not that easy, if it was easy to run away from life we would probably all do it. This book does make you think about the whole ethos of cloning, but where it falls is that the author makes us think to much.
I would recommend this book and I would read it again but I much preferred Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, you don't have to think and you can just allow your mind to idle away around the English countryside.
This is a good book, I don't know what it is about Japanese authors but it just so happens Ishiguro alongside Murakami and Mishima are great story tellers
*edited to add*
The characters in this book although being clones fromed friendships and fell in love with one another, they shared feelings that a human being would have, so why did they accept completion or death so easily? it's not like they lived to ripe old ages, they completed young, in thier twenties, they could have sexual relations with each other without the risk of having babies, but yet death was so easy for them to accept. It does make you wonder just what the life of a clone would be like.
Never Let Me Go
K. Ishiguru
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After I finished reading this book the first thing I thought was 'WOW', I even had a little tear in my eye, it takes a good book to make that kind of impression on me. But......
This book I found very easy to put down and forget about, it wasn't what I would class as a page turner. It seemed that with every sentence Ishiguro was trying to tell you something, make you think and sometimes I just want to read and not have to think. But then I raced through the last eighty or so pages as the story came together, hence the proclamation 'WOW'.
The narrator of the story, Kathy, she's looking back on her school days at Hailsham and afterwards as a carer. You would be forgiven at first for thinking that Hailsham is just another public school but you soon realize that it certainly not that. Basically all students of Hailsham are clones farmed for thier organs. after leaving school thier only role in life is to donate, sometimes they donate one or two times before they 'complete' (die) sometimes as in the case of Kathies friend Tommy they may donate four times before completing, and that's it they know no other life, you're either a donator or a carer like Kathy, who would most probably herself become a donator later in life, after-all that was what she was farmed for.
So our narrator is looking back on her school days with her friends and trying to piece everything together and it's only when the book picks up pace in the last eighty or so pages that kathy is made aware of the role in life of Hailsham students.
As I was reading I was thinking to myself why doesn't Kathy and Tommy run away from this life? but I guess it's not that easy, if it was easy to run away from life we would probably all do it. This book does make you think about the whole ethos of cloning, but where it falls is that the author makes us think to much.
I would recommend this book and I would read it again but I much preferred Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, you don't have to think and you can just allow your mind to idle away around the English countryside.
This is a good book, I don't know what it is about Japanese authors but it just so happens Ishiguro alongside Murakami and Mishima are great story tellers
*edited to add*
The characters in this book although being clones fromed friendships and fell in love with one another, they shared feelings that a human being would have, so why did they accept completion or death so easily? it's not like they lived to ripe old ages, they completed young, in thier twenties, they could have sexual relations with each other without the risk of having babies, but yet death was so easy for them to accept. It does make you wonder just what the life of a clone would be like.