Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Beautiful and thought-provoking

Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Novel or Relationships- great summer read

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Never Let Me Go

	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf, 2005 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 236 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Beautiful and thought-provoking

This book is so well written the mere prose brings tears to my eyes. The story itself is heartwrenching as well, in the subtle, restrained way of Ishiguro, of course. What's unbelievable is how complacent the children are about their fate: no rebellion, no runaways. But put that aside, because the story is worth it.

Novel or Relationships- great summer read

I just finished this book yesterday. I must say while I was reading it I didn't want to put it down and once I did I just kept thinking about it. I don't think that it is an earth-shattering novel about the politics of cloning. However, I do think it is an earth-shattering novel about people and relationships. It's characters are so profoundly written, that one feels as though they live and breathe with them. I enjoyed this aspect a great deal. It is slow about two fourths of the way through, but the characters keep you reading. I didn't think the end was shocking or awfully meaningful, but Ishiguro certainly does "pull you under." Great summer read!

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A Subtle and Affecting Book

Ishiguro never fails to surprise me. Each of this author's books seem a bit different, and they are never quick to disappear from my consciousness, even after long having closed the book.

The book is narrated in the first person by Kathy H., a student (or inmate?) of the Hailsham School, which is an establishment that has enigmatic goals for its student body. One guesses early on why these children are special, and yet there is an overpowering tension as you read on, because the reader assumes there are further mysteries to be revealed. There are indeed events that we don't understand oompletely, but the resolution of these is a bit of a letdown--both for the reader, and the characters.

Although it was not quite what I expected (I was expecting more traditional dystopian novel), and while I was frequently baffled by character reaction and motivation, I found myself deeply affected by this rather frighteningly plausible story.

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Just below par for finishing

A lot of other people have already articulated what I felt about this book, but I'd still like to stress the lower end of ratings a bit more.

I liked the concept, the slow revealing of what it's all about and occasionally even the actual content, but most of the time I just found it a bit too distant and hard to connect with. On a page-to-page basis, there wasn't much to keep me reading.

Maybe I'm just too picky about books. The author seems nicely original. But he's just missing something. Human-oriented science fiction that's interesting neither science fictionally nor humanly.

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Interesting idea in book but BORING.