Synopsis
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, "Never Let Me Go" hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, "Never Let Me Go" is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

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Thank you, Sobergirl. :)

This book is definitely worth reading! The plot is exciting and the ending surprises you, even though you pretty soon figure out what it is all about.

There are no empty chapters in this book, the story runs smoothly throughout the novel.

The only thing I didn't like was that the characters are somehow bookish and one-dimensional, I would have wanted to hear more about them. Thanks to the powerful story, this didn't bother me as much as it would have in a more "boring" book.

Added to the bookbox.

Picked this up at the local bookcrossing meeting.

Excellent. I gave this book an unheard of (for me) 10 because Never Let Me Go impacted me deeply. It's written in the first person narrative throughout and to be honest I usually prefer dialogue in novels, but this was exactly the right form for this book because rather than the reader seeing events as an observer - everything is seen and experienced through Kathy, on e of the three main characters in the book and is therefore much more powerful!

It wasn't always easy to read however because so much of the plot evolved in tiny fragments - it was like doing a frustratingly impossible jigsaw puzzle - and in the end the whole theme of the book was also deeply disturbing.

This is a novel which could actually be fact. I think that unnerved me. It's set in England in the 1990s -and dedicated to "Lorna and Naomi" which made me smile. If I hadn't already promised this book to another it would join my permanent collection along with Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees

It's impossible to say much about this book without giving away its subject - and that in a way is also one of Halisham's (the place at the centre of the book) secrets. For me the climax of the book was almost at the end on page 255.

There are a lot of euphemisms in the book, a little like Brave New World, and that also made me think a lot about how language evolves and how all of us have a special vocabulary we use with our inner circle of friends.

This novel is really really worth reading and was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2005.

"A clear frontrunner to be the year's most extraordinary novel" (Sunday Times)

Was sad to let this go ... but given as a suprise 'wish list' gift. Thanks Ipsu for the prompt.

What a wonderful surprise! Thanks a lot See-through-faith for this fantastic christmas present. I'm REALLY looking forward to read it. I've read The Remains of the Day earlier and I was really impressed by it. And beacause I like a lot to read science fiction, I find this book especially interesting.

Fantastic book! I read it almost immediately when I received it, but I forgot to make journal entry here. I have a bad habit to read books too quickly, but with this book I read every word very carefully. From the first page it was something very fascinating and very different.

Compared to The Remains of the Day I find there are some similarities, although the stories are so different. Thanks again for sharing this book!

I got this book from our bc-meeting today, thank you halonhakkaaja! I'll comment more later.