Never Let Me Go Book Reviews

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Powerful & Haunting. Beautifully written! My favorite book by this author.

What’s the point?. If you want to read hundreds of pages about clueless children having immature and vacuous discourse, then this is the book for you! What a piece of literary crap.

Wonderful.. Never Let Me Go is so relatable, despite its sci-fi undertones. I say undertones because of its subtlety in weaving in the sci-fi story. I love sci-fi but even if you don't, you'll love this novel because it'll remind you of growing up, feelings of being an adolescent and the desire to be accepted and the flaming knot in your stomach when you are not. With all the craziness that goes on in life these days, it's almost nostalgic being transported back to a time when who you sat next to at lunch time was the biggest worry in the world. Ah, simple times. Wonderful novel!

Never let me go. Probably one of the worst books I ever started to read. Did not finish, even for book club.

Good way to make you sad.. I swear, the very last scene sticks with you for days. Just wow. One of my all time favorites. Very tragic and poignant, but still worth it nonetheless. Loved it overall :)

Star crossed love in a dystopian future. This is a love story set in a subtly dystopian future. The author carefully creates his main characters, paragraph by paragraph , their relationships, and the world that they live in. The impression of ordinary human teenage and young adult angst as the characters navigate their way through life is almost but not quite right. There is something wrong, something not quite right about this world. The story balances this sense of strangeness with relatable and complex characters through whom we experience this world. We follow the protagonist from her young teenage years and experience with her the ups and downs of friendships, love, and transitioning to adulthood. The reader is drawn all the more closely to her as she is able to be with the love of her life. The reader feels her heartbreak all the more powerfully as the author brings the story to a surprising and tragic finale.

Avoiding the issue. This is a book about cloned people who are to provide vital organs and then file. But this issue is not really addressed. The characters seeem to accept their future and instead are concerned only with personal relationships amounst themselves. Like “The Remains of the Day” the books is composted of flashbacks.

The Sequence of Detail. An amazing play of writing. Never Let Me Go is subtle with the heart while showcasing a human experience.

Fine to read…But don’t raise your expectations… all in all mediocre. I got the idea the book would be much different than it actually was. While I can not say this book was bad, I can also say that it didn’t have me at the edge of my seat. During the first part I mostly was confused, because of the lack of context given it was difficult to understand why the narrator was feeding certain stories. Any sort of romance came together at the very last minute. To be honest even after finishing while I understood the plot I’m trying to understand what I could’ve possibly missed, because this book is not as good as many imply

Kept reading for something more. The only reason I finished this book was I thought it would get better, more interesting, have an amazing ending... I wish I could get my time and money back.

Worthwhile Read. After seeing the movie, I felt compelled to read the book, hoping it had greater dialogue and insight than the movie. The movie was wonderful though I did not like the older Tommy's character and I dislike voiceover. The book, though slightly disappointing, was well worth the money spent. I had only wished more of the book was written as well as the final chapter - imagistic and lovely. Looking forward to exploring more titles by the same author however.

Disappointing. Disappointing book after all the rave reviews. “Okay, let me tell you about something. But first, let me tell you about something else so you will understand it.” Get ready for a lot of that. It grates after a while. And the big reveals in the novel are strung out and contrived to get you to keep reading the first half of the book. When they come, they don’t hit as hard as they would’ve if the narrator would’ve straight up told us instead of stringing us along. There are two really touching scenes, Kath dancing with the pillow in part one, and Ruth’s blowup in Norfolk. Otherwise we get a lot of bland personal highs and lows between Kath, Ruth, and Tommy. Kath, the narrator is an extremely spiteful woman towards Ruth all the way to the end, and Tommy’s dumb as a brick. There’s not any good humor for levity, and the writing style is not particularly literary, merely competent. If this is one of the best books of the 21st century, then perhaps I’m too hung up on the great classics of the past. And I’m ok with that.

Sad and disturbing later 20th century alternative history. Lean almost simple 1st person narrative of a particular direction the UK could have pursued after WWII. I almost don’t want to call this Sci-fi. Story builds over several decades. Even the climax and denouement are not shocking or a great surprise. But ultimately it leaves me frustrated, disturbed and sad. A very curious response for me to Sci-fi.

May Make You Nauseous. Probably as good from a literary standpoint as everyone seems to think it is. If you are human, however, it may make you nauseous.

Another great Ishiguro Noveel. Ishiguro's a master of subtle and understated prose, has another excellent novel in Never Let Me Go. The narrator, Kathy tells the story of her friendship with Ruth and Tommy, from their earliest days at their private boarding school, to adulthood, through its ups and downs, until only Kathy is left. While many know what makes these characters special when the novel begins, even those who don't have some prior knowledge should figure it out with little difficulty, early on. While never stating things explicitly, the clues are in plain sight. What is the true focus and brilliance of Ishiguro's novel isn't the what, but rather, the how these three have been raised to this purpose, and what they eventually find out about what makes the special. That revelation has far more impact on the audience than it does the characters. That reveal takes what is disturbing and makes the alternative, or rather, the more common practice horrifying. The characters are well drawn and Kathy's narrative draws us in, paints a detailed picture of their world, connecting to us, yet it is also an unfathomable existence. Strangely, I empathized with their experience, but at same was frustrated by their unquestioning acceptance, despite understanding their upbringing's goal was precisely that. Ishiguro's work is always thought provoking, always based in the complex emotional inter-personal relationships and the individual's relationship to their status in the world. Never Let Me Go adds the layer of a possible ethic quandary that our innovations of science may present sooner than we'd like.

Ishiguro’s book about friendship. This is an intense novel about memory and friendship. The fact the kids are doomed to die early provides the context for the exploration. The details a reader might want to know about the how this evil system came to be, how the “donation” process actually works, why the “completion” takes so long, why didn’t some of them just kill the themselves etc. are not discussed. Consequently, all these intense friendships and endless discussions don’t ring entirely true. But this dystopian story is not about those other things and what Ishiguro is able to do is focus on friendships and memory in a brutal environment.

Beautiful. It very subtly and beautifully tapped I to my greatest fears. Mose than once I found myself in tears.

Prepare to sob!. I read this for a class and could not put it down. Definitely worth the read!

A masterpiece of knowing and not knowing. Ishiguro's masterful writing of this book only makes it even better. With an overarching theme of the morality regarding clones and ultimately, stem-cell research, Ishiguro writes a novel that is in many ways relatable to the reader. What gives this novel a disquieting feel is our acceptance of what is presented in the book. While we have questions about events in the book, when they are answered we never object to the answer and actually accept what we are told. Ishiguro keeps us in a similar state of knowledge to the donors who, whenever they are told something new, accept it as though they had always known the answer. The reader, when they finish the book, accepts it as what it is, as if they always knew the book would be that way. Yet we never question the reason as to why we read the book if we knew what was going to happen.

Beautiful and engaging. Couldn't put it own until I finished it! Great story :)

Don't buy the hype. Shallow, zero insight. I felt I was spoon fed every detail. Saw everything coming a mile away. Passionless. Read something else, like....anything.

Good book. Good read

No Spoilers. For me, this book felt like one big run-on sentence. I initially enjoyed the first-person narration, it felt like I was having an intimate conversation with the main character. After awhile, it felt rambling. Chapter after chapter, I kept waiting for some kind of big revelation. It never came. What could have been a thrilling reveal in the plot was delivered in an anticlimactic way. The main characters’ friendships, memories, and worries were written about extensively, but still they somehow felt flat and robotic. Perhaps this was intentional, given the plot, but I struggled to feel connected to them.

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