The story itself was an interesting read.
I (unlike others) wasn't spoiled so i had the opportunity to read through and discover the key issues as they were elaborated in the story. I found it interesting that the cloning was treated with such subtlety though had to suspend disbelief a little. I kept wondering whether people would really accept their fate like that? It's like the opposite of The Island where the clones rebel (though that's in face of discovering a lie about their existence).
Key issues for me:
As above, whether it presented a realistic picture of that scenario
The characters being a bit "meh" for me. Didn't love them, didn't hate them. Found them more childish and irritating, even after they'd grown up.
I really dislike the use of not-so-subtle foreshadowing or linking sentences like "and that was the last time i spoke to Ruth until after the incident..... it was 6 years later when the incident happened". I guess after years of reading RJ who is a bit more subtle than that it's somewhat jarring.
So i guess i enjoyed it. I didn't find the issues particularly compelling, though, and that might have been due to overexposure of SciFi themes over the years.
I (unlike others) wasn't spoiled so i had the opportunity to read through and discover the key issues as they were elaborated in the story. I found it interesting that the cloning was treated with such subtlety though had to suspend disbelief a little. I kept wondering whether people would really accept their fate like that? It's like the opposite of The Island where the clones rebel (though that's in face of discovering a lie about their existence).
Key issues for me:
As above, whether it presented a realistic picture of that scenario
The characters being a bit "meh" for me. Didn't love them, didn't hate them. Found them more childish and irritating, even after they'd grown up.
I really dislike the use of not-so-subtle foreshadowing or linking sentences like "and that was the last time i spoke to Ruth until after the incident..... it was 6 years later when the incident happened". I guess after years of reading RJ who is a bit more subtle than that it's somewhat jarring.
So i guess i enjoyed it. I didn't find the issues particularly compelling, though, and that might have been due to overexposure of SciFi themes over the years.
Book Club Discussion: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
18/10/2010 05:51:00 PM
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I have just discovered that I loaned the book to someone recently as well.
18/10/2010 06:27:52 PM
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Might as well start with this - what did you think of Ishiguro's subtle treatment of the key issue?
18/10/2010 06:34:58 PM
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Are we talking the fact that they were clones?
18/10/2010 10:39:25 PM
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I may not be all that good in figuring such things out, but it wasn't so evident to me at all.
18/10/2010 11:06:00 PM
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I figured it out almost straight away.
19/10/2010 01:33:17 PM
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Re: What was the other book?
03/11/2010 09:35:01 PM
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What did you think of the characters?
18/10/2010 06:43:22 PM
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I find it difficult to sympathise with these characters and I wonder whether that's deliberate.
26/10/2010 03:56:34 PM
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Since Chas is making me wonder... What did you think of the book? Like it, love it, hate it? *NM*
18/10/2010 11:13:55 PM
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And I'm officially overusing the phrase "what did you think". *NM*
18/10/2010 11:14:15 PM
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Crap. I hope I didn't come across as too negative, because I loved the book.
19/10/2010 01:33:57 PM
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I liked it (with some exceptions)
20/10/2010 09:55:26 AM
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I thought of The Island, too - same premise, very different approach.
20/10/2010 04:42:48 PM
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Right. A better answer, now that I've got the book and have refreshed my memory.
26/10/2010 03:53:58 PM
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Did you just compare Robert Jordan's writing style favourably to Ishiguro's?
02/03/2011 11:20:46 PM
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What do you think of the idea of growing cloned humans for donations?
31/10/2010 02:53:25 PM
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Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame.
31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM
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