![]() ![]() It never hammered home what exactly it wanted to, perhaps it was about fate, maybe about the willful aversion to truth in order to live more a comfortable life in any regard- it fails to be compelling. But never let me goyou know that what is being asked for, and asked for with great passion and need, is actually ultimately impossible to fulfill, so it’s that never that really appealed to. You can say, hold on to me for a long time, that’s reasonable. Thematically this book was boring as well. In that TV program, Ishiguro explained: Never let me go is an impossible request. The whole book is building up a romance that only sees the light of day in the last 30 pages, which is so completely passionless and lackluster. ![]() The first half of the book is spent in this shroud of mystery that never has a curtain pull, instead it just sort of evaporates and feels incredibly anticlimactic. Are we meant to believe every single one of the characters just accepts their God awful fate? I couldn't believe we didn't hear about an ounce of dissention in the novel. Even the adults who were normal felt unbearably flat and cliche. Additionally, every single character seemed to be irredeemably gullible and naive. Kathy didn't have much initiative throughout the story, she was such a passive narrator. ![]() The main characters felt completely flat to me, and they never seemed to grow from there 'highschool' cliquey-ness. I read "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro because he just won the Nobel, and this is one of his more renowned works. ![]()
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