Never Let Me Go
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GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/15/2014
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 10/15/2014 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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I got this fair-condition softcover at Savers. I'd read the book some time back and enjoyed it, though it's so very bleak and heart-wrenching. (Ishiguro's collection Nocturnes was also quite good.)
The story's so leisurely that it takes a while for its true horrors to sink in, but they're all the more effective by then. Much of the story is a coming-of-age/love-triangle among a group of young people brought up at the same exclusive private school, and those aspects of the story are quite moving (and sometimes pretty funny). But it turns out that there's more to this school and its students than is apparent at first, and as the details come out - and become more immediate to the characters - it's very, very chilling.
[There's a 2010 film adaptation that's quite good, though I thought it missed some of the poignancy of the book. And there's a TV Tropes page on the book and film, with some items of interest.]
The story's so leisurely that it takes a while for its true horrors to sink in, but they're all the more effective by then. Much of the story is a coming-of-age/love-triangle among a group of young people brought up at the same exclusive private school, and those aspects of the story are quite moving (and sometimes pretty funny). But it turns out that there's more to this school and its students than is apparent at first, and as the details come out - and become more immediate to the characters - it's very, very chilling.
[There's a 2010 film adaptation that's quite good, though I thought it missed some of the poignancy of the book. And there's a TV Tropes page on the book and film, with some items of interest.]
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Shepard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Monday, October 27, 2014
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Shepard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Monday, October 27, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (10/27/2014 UTC) at Little Free Library, Shepard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this and several other books in the Little Free Library on Shepard St. at around 2 or so; hope the finders enjoy them!*** Released for the 2014 TICK TOCK release challenge, for "never". ***
*** Released as part of the 2014 Movie release challenge. ***
