Never Let Me Go

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Kazuo Ishiguro, Rosalyn Landor: Never Let Me Go (AudiobookFormat, 2005, Brand: Random House Audio, Random House Audio)

audio cd, 8 pages

Published April 12, 2005 by Brand: Random House Audio, Random House Audio.

ISBN:
978-0-7393-1798-3
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4 stars (27 reviews)

Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past about her school and the friends she made over there. Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, Never Let Me Go is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.

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Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Kazuo's first novel, Never let me go, is an adventure of despair and a weird love triangle.
In this review, I will be diverting my attention and knowledge across different aspects of this collection of the English lexicon.

Though this book may or may not have been entitled 'bestseller' by various democratic propaganda new sources, such as The New York Times, the book manages to bore me even more every single page I read. Whenever I assume that there's no such distinct possibility of an even more delusional and pathetic chapter, it surprises me over and over.

Somehow, the author Kazuo has managed to make this 288-page book feel like a thousand-page book. This is even worse than the poets about Job's miserable life in The Bible, or the songs of Salomo. Both sections of The Old Testament have been an absolute agony for me to read, but compared to …

Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I was expecting a dystopian novel and while this was essentially dystopian, this book was such a light read; possibly too causally written for my life. I had a sense that the author was causally throwing facts in as if it was common knowledge and expected the reader to already know what was happening. While it is possibly a good way to reveal this world, i have a sense that he wasn’t revealing anything and leaving the reader with too many questions. This sort of narrative is the biggest flaw for me in this book. There really isn’t anything that keeps the book from moving apart from a need to know what is actually happening and when you find out whats happening it really isn’t fulfilling and you are left with wanting to know more.

Review of 'Never Let Me Go' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I found Never Let Me Go in a basket full of paperbacks at Fretex in Ullevålsveien and thought “Surely that’s one of the 1001 books? Well, even if not it’s probably worth 10 kroner.” It was. Both.

Having seen the film Remains of the Day with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, based on Ishiguro’s novel by the same name, I guess I was expecting a similar sort of plot. You know, English realism or whatever one should call it. That is hardly how you’d describe Never Let Me Go, though. It’s another kettle of fish entirely. Very English, yes, and set in an England of sorts, but in a parallell universe (thanks be). It is going to be hard to say much about it, as if you are going to read it – and you really should – you should be allowed to unfold the premises of the setting with …

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