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December 2, 2007

Reading Ishiguro

This is my second time reading Never Let Me Go, so I was surprised that even though I knew the sort of "surprise" of the book, I still found it almost impossible to put the book down. I think this is because the book is so complex that it is not solely dependent on the mystery of what Hailsham is. The reader is not only intrigued by all the hints that are dropped about donors and carers, Ishiguro takes the reader into someone else's mind, into another world so completely that I could not tear myself away! I've only read one other of his novels, The Remains of the Day, and that book also is told from a very close first person, so close that you have to sort of figure out what is really happening apart from what the narrator is telling you.

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