16 March 2011

Book Review!


Tonight I finished reading Never Let Me Go by Kazui Ishiguro. This is on the TIME Magazine 100 Best Novels List. I mainly chose this book because I know that this book was recently made into a movie, and those are some of my favorite books to read. I love reading a book, and then seeing the movie, how someone brought someone else words to life!

Anyway, this was one of the most interesting books I've ever read. I would consider it a Science Fiction book, but not in a usual way. There weren't aliens or monsters or anything, but more in a science gone too far in reality. In that this would never happen in real life, but could. I won't give away the ending but it was a very sad book, where it doesn't tell you the ending but you know what happens.

Here is the book summary from TIME:

Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are students at Hailsham, a very exclusive, very strange English private school. They are treated well in every respect, but as they grow older they come to realize that there is a secret that haunts their lives: Their teachers regard them with fear and pity, and they don't know why. Once they learn the secret it is already far, far too late for them to save themselves. Set in a darkling alternate-universe version of England, and told with dry-eyed, white-knuckled restraint, Never Let Me Go is an improbable masterpiece, a science fiction horror story written as high tragedy by a master literary stylist. It's postmodern in its conception, but Ishiguro isn't playing games or chasing trends: The human drama of Never Let Me Go, its themes of atrocity and acceptance, are timeless and, sadly, permanent.

1 comment:

  1. I loved this book. I intend to read more by the author. Not sure why I never have.

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