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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (March 14, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1400078776
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400078776
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,483 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Truth Between the Lines
By Debbie Lee Wesselmann TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 11, 2005
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Set in the 1990's, Kazuo Ishiguro's quietly disturbing novel aims to make us question the ethics of science even though the author never directly raises the topic. The narrator of Never Let Me Go is Kathy H., a woman who introduces herself as a "carer" mere months away from becoming a "donor," as though we should know what these terms mean. This nearness to ending one stage of her life to entering another causes her to reminisce about Hailsham, the school in the English countryside where she grew up with her two closest friends, Tommy D. and Ruth. The three form an unlikely trio: Ruth is headstrong and imaginative; Tommy has an uncontrollable temper; and Kathy is steady and observant in the subtleties of human behavior. It is this last quality belonging to Kathy H. that sets the tone of the novel. Everything is precisely told in an even, matter-of-fact voice that never questions the strange terminology and conversations that alert the reader to something more grave lurking under what seems, on the surface, to be an ordinary story about three childhood friends. As the three grow up, they begin to face moments more important than the minor disagreements of childhood.

Ishiguro's richly textured description of the relationship among the three supplies all the details without confronting the larger issues. As Kathy tells us, the guardians at Hailsham both tell and not tell the students the truth about Hailsham and their lives--exactly what Ishiguro does to the reader. The truth is doled out in increments, over the course of the entire novel, requiring the reader to understand what is implied as much as what is told. The frightening side to all this is that the characters never question the course of their lives.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Banality of Amoral Science
By Steve Koss VINE VOICE on April 13, 2005
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Kazuo Ishiguro's brilliant new book, NEVER LET ME GO, returns the author to the themes and approaches he first addressed in THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. Just as Stevens the butler devoted himself unthinkingly and uncritically to the minutiae of daily life on behalf of his Nazi sympathizing master, Lord Darlington, the main characters in Ishiguro's latest book focus on the irrelevant small details and minor tribulations of their lives without ever once contemplating the bigger picture. In both cases, the author not only conjures the question of the meaning of life, he asks us to contemplate the tragedy of wasted lives.

On its surface, NEVER LET ME GO tells the story of three special young people - Kathy H., Tommy D., and Ruth - all of whom meet as students at an idyllic private school called Hailsham. Kathy H. is the narrator, now 31 years old, telling her story in hindsight. She recalls her student days at Hailsham fondly, filling her tale with numerous minor anecdotes about the most mundane affairs that slowly reveal the nature of the school and its students' place in the world. (...) Ishiguro creates a convincing vocabulary, milieu, and mythology for this setting: guardians, carers, donors, completing, Exchanges, Sales, the Gallery, Norfolk, and an eerie sense of the students having "been told and not told."

NEVER LET ME GO accomplishes the remarkable challenge of presenting 288 pages' worth of reading between the lines. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are not the real main characters of this story, only the visible ones. The real main characters are invisible, the ones who have not only facilitated the use of cloning as a form of organ farming, but who have created a conditioning environment in which their victims accept their fate without question, as the natural order of things.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSimply Brilliant
By B. McEwan VINE VOICE on May 20, 2006
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WARNING: This review contains "spoilers," information that reveals key plot details.

This novel works beautifully on multiple levels, giving it a quality that kept me thinking about its plot, characters and themes long after I finished its final page. On the most obvious level it is a sort of alternate history that depicts a dystopian society in 1990s England that breeds human clones to become organ donors for "the normals." In that aspect, it brings to mind Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where humans are created in test tubes and have fixed functions that they grow up to perform in society.

However, Never Let Me Go is more subtle than either Huxley or -- another obvious comparison -- George Orwell's 1984, in that the oppressor is not specifically depicted and there is no one person or group that is in obvious conflict with Ishiguro's main characters. There is nothing overt that keeps them in their places, whether that place is at school when they are children, or at "recovery centers" while their internal organs are being systematically plucked out. I kept wondering why the two lovers, Kathy and Tommy, didn't just pick up their stuff, get in her car and take off for parts unknown, eventually blending in with the "normal" population.

And that brings me to the next, deeper level, of the novel, which is about the nature of humanity. All of this novel's characters seem to meekly accept their fates, even Tommy, who has a temper and often throws fits of rage when frustrated. They are also hyper-sensitive to one another, reading motivations and emotions into each small gesture and remark, as though every utterance and movement each one makes is deliberate, premeditated and loaded with significance.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book

Beautiful characters I already miss them. Easy to read but not easy. Original plot.

Published 3 days ago by diana
5.0 out of 5 starsLoved the stream of consciousness way this was written

I loved the way this was written and found myself reading it for hours at a time. It's a sci find novel while not being to far fetched.

Published 3 days ago by Joanna
2.0 out of 5 starsAn embarrassment for this talent.

What a horrendous premise, to grow children to be organ donors, presumably for the rich. Has the world gotten to a place where a novel can be written so matter of fact and... Read more

Published 4 days ago by jgus
5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant

Another brilliant novel by Ishiguro. This is so layered with meaning that readers will want to go back and read it again. The sci fi aspect is handled beautifully. Read more

Published 4 days ago by Sippican Sweetie
2.0 out of 5 starsAnguish Overload

So do not read this book unless you want anguish overload. This book is so disconcerting. I guess I could have given it more stars for being a life reality check and that you... Read more

Published 4 days ago by Jane Sibley
5.0 out of 5 starsRead it and weep

Ishiguro takes us to another enclosed world, a prep school with a sinister secret. I kept waiting for someone to rebel - aren't these teenagers after all? Read more

Published 14 days ago by Barrie-John Murphy
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 17 days ago by Tariq
4.0 out of 5 starsIshiguro and Ethical Quandaries.

This was a really interesting character study, of three people learning to cope with a lifetime of futility. Read more

Published 17 days ago by Matt
2.0 out of 5 starsTwo Stars

Strange novel & a chore to read for me.

Published 18 days ago by Kanya Schwinghamer
2.0 out of 5 starsPredictable

I kept waiting for it to get better, or for something to happen. I had an idea where it was going from the start and it pretty much went that exact route. Read more

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