Right. A better answer, now that I've got the book and have refreshed my memory.
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 26/10/2010 03:53:58 PM
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.
That's not surprising, considering that they're life isn't ever going to be a normal life. They're not there to be people. They're there to be replacements. I think they were taught just enough to keep them out of trouble and keep them healthy and that's it. They don't have the right emotional development as they're sheltered from mixing with a broad range of people. So Ishiguro wrote their characters well, I think.
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.
It wasn't used as foreshadowing. The book is more like a memoir than a normal novel. It's all a collection of Kathy's thoughts. That's pretty much exactly how people do things when reminiscing. I've got a book my Dutch Grandmother wrote and published about her experiences in World War II and it follows exactly the same meandering pathway that this book does. Once again it makes me incredibly aware of Ishiguro's talent as an author. Every book is different.
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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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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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