I'd like to think our societies are better than that... that we would emphatically reject the idea of using humans as, well, cattle really. Of course, if it did happen, one can see how people would start seeing them as second class citizens, and who knows where that would lead... scary thought.
I feel the same way, although I suspect I am rather more pessimistic than you about human nature.
I like to think that in the majority of countries they would be treated no differently from others, but that's a lovely piece of idealism and the reality is that most of us would react in pretty much the way described in this book. Fear of what we don't understand, the unknown, etc.
It's why I think this book is so beautiful, so haunting, and so distressing.
*MySmiley*
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
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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Uncomfortable is putting it mildly.
- 03/11/2010 10:12:43 PM
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Re: Uncomfortable is putting it mildly.
- 05/11/2010 07:36:04 PM
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Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame.
- 31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM
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