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A review by writerreader
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
3.25
Time may change my rating and review. Which way Im not sure. It was initially meant to be a 1, so annoyed I was with the tale of forced donors who didnt fight back in any way about their situation. I read more anout the writer and their motivation (that they wrote it to see why so many people don’t rebel against their own dire circumstances) & I thought, well, fair. After all Im a writer with a hated story trying to buck convention so as to cogitate thought, so I had to give him some leeway, right?
But I still can’t give it too many points being that, though I understand their docility matches ours when faced with many things, well, how was there not a single thought or action against their fate? How were the controlling systems (of pressure and of society) not more visible? Surely they would be reinforced in many different ways, wouldn't they?
In the end I hve to put this book in the same bin as stories by Munro and Trevor, in that they have a kind of delicate subtlety that appeals to a person indoctrinated in our elite circle, a person who has come to believe that being tickled by getting near a tough topic is a sign of high culture.
Peace out
But I still can’t give it too many points being that, though I understand their docility matches ours when faced with many things, well, how was there not a single thought or action against their fate? How were the controlling systems (of pressure and of society) not more visible? Surely they would be reinforced in many different ways, wouldn't they?
In the end I hve to put this book in the same bin as stories by Munro and Trevor, in that they have a kind of delicate subtlety that appeals to a person indoctrinated in our elite circle, a person who has come to believe that being tickled by getting near a tough topic is a sign of high culture.
Peace out