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  • In today's society we already have surrogate mothers, why not surrogate organ doners? A compelling story of a possible future. What made me saddest was the fact they were raised in schools as normal children. Where upon graduation, shuffled of to "camps" to live until they had been taught what th ... Continue

    In today's society we already have surrogate mothers, why not surrogate organ doners? A compelling story of a possible future. What made me saddest was the fact they were raised in schools as normal children. Where upon graduation, shuffled of to "camps" to live until they had been taught what they're responsibilities really were. Seems wrong to do that. After all they, were humans, cloned or not.

    

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  • I was thoroughly engaged in this book and really didn't put it down unless I had to. But it did leave me feeling unsatisfied, heartbroken. I quickly needed to read something else more uplifting afterward.

    

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  • Like many of Ishiguro's books, this is not so much about the actual storyline of the book, but about the characters of the book. We are encouraged to sympathize and think with characters about life and human nature. But the odd nonchalant treatment of the plot, which could just as easily been foun ... Continue

    Like many of Ishiguro's books, this is not so much about the actual storyline of the book, but about the characters of the book. We are encouraged to sympathize and think with characters about life and human nature. But the odd nonchalant treatment of the plot, which could just as easily been found in a scifi book, was distracting. I wanted to find out more about the purpose of the school the children attended and those who began and ran the program they were in.
    I am sure others liked this book. It was insightful and left me thinking. But it just wasn't my flavor.

    

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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance–and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

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