One of the many books that I have picked up from the local
(very urban) farm. Yet another solid 50p investment!
Being ultimately ignorant, I always assumed that Ishiguro
just wrote novels like The Remains of the
Day. As most literate people will be able to confirm, however, that’s not
the case. Throughout the book I felt as if Hailsham was actually Homerton College
in Cambridge – something that probably says a lot about my memories of the
place!
I honestly can’t say that I loved the novel – I really
enjoyed the parts about the relations between the clones (this felt mostly like
a very dark and fundamentally humour-less campus novel), but when Ishiguro turns
too science-fictionesque he starts to lose me (and my interest) a little bit. Never Let Me Go is a very well-written
dystopian novel, but so are countless others (not McCarthy’s The Road – that’s a work of art!)
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