Basic: Never Let Me Go (Hardcover)

from brenzi

Creepy. Repulsive. Abhorrent. Fascinating. Mesmerizing. Intriguing. Much like the car crash that you can't take your eyes off of, this novel had me stymied as to how I felt about it. One minute repulsed and the next fascinated. From "I really like this book" to "I hate this book." The story is to...

from nittnut

Never Let Me Go is labeled as science fiction. It's more of an Orwellian or Aldous Huxley science fiction than a Wells or Heinlein science fiction. I am still not certain if the main issue of the book - human cloning - was meant to be obvious to the reader or not. As a device, meaning that the re...

from siafl

Fortunate for me, I hadn't the faintest idea what the book's about when I started. So it remained suspenseful throughout and for me that's probably the most important factor for how I rate it now. The language is typically Ishiguro's; in fact when I started I was concerned about whether the inten...

from jburlinson

SPOILER ALERT (Please note the irony) -- Some have wondered why the clones don't rebel against their fate, or at least simply walk away from their destiny. My take on this: Ishiguro has written an extended parable concerning the fate 99.9% of all living persons share. Granted, we're not all engen...

from KAzevedo

WARNING! SPOILER AHEAD!! Many have called this book Science Fiction and in fact, the science that underlies the story IS still fiction. But perhaps, not for much longer. However "Never Let Me Go" is one of the most subtly written books of speculative fiction that I have ever read. The narrator is...