Friday, July 04, 2008

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go book cover

Rocketing right up my favourite books chart is Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go which I just finished reading yesterday. I’m glad that I had avoided reviews for it in advance as part of the pleasure in reading it was in the gradual discovery of the exact nature of the lives of the characters.

So I’m not going to explain any of the plot and only say that it is haunting and poignant and utterly heart breaking. And it is one of those stories that stays with you after, so much so that today I had to tell myself off several times for grieving for what were after all only imaginary characters.

I hadn’t read Ishiguro before but I’ll certainly be adding him to my future reading list.

Music: ‘Broken Heart’, Spirtualized

Posted by Bad Faery on 07/04 at 08:13 PM
Posted in: Books • Fiction •

Comments:

How wonderful to find such a find in a book.
I will jot this one down.
I love it when you come to care about the people in the book and think, well, that they are real, and wonder what their lives have become after you are finished reading that far into thier lives.

Posted by Lynn on 07/10 at 05:01 PM



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