Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a stirring book of unaffected beauty. The prose style is not futzed over. It's simple. Deceptively so. And Ishiguro is able to evoke the thoughts of a woman looking back over her childhood and early adulthood very convincingly. Nice trick for a male writer.
The other nice trick he pulls off is setting a wistful, evolving love story against the strange backdrop of a school with an unusual, mostly unspoken secret drama. (And that's all I'll reveal...)
I was sad at the end, both for plot reasons, but also because I would have to begin the search for another good, highly readable book.
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posted by Mike @ 3:35 PM
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how was the ride today?
A little tougher than I expected. (full report to follow when I'm not so tired!)
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