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Title: Let it go
Review: I picked up "Never Let Me Go" expecting, if not something of the caliber of "The Remains of the Day", then at least a good read. Boy, was I in for a disappointment. Despite its moral implications and what it's trying to say about cloning, "Never Let Me Go" flunks on a purely literary level. Its prose is basic to the point of seeming neutered, as if metaphors and evocative descriptions were poison. Its narrative devices are cloying and repetitive: seemingly random anecdotes that seem trivial at first. And then stay unredeemed until the end. Its characters are unlikable, difficult to penetrate, but more importantly: they're the epitome of boring.I usually read a book a week. "Never Let Me Go" took me a month. A month! I'd read three pages and doze off. I only finished it because Ishiguro is the author of a certain story about an English butler.Skip. Toss. Hide. Let go. Believe me.
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