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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 Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.

Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.


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