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Title: Let me spare you the agony
Review: While you'd think that the topic of cloning could provide an author with endless fodder for interesting and compelling writing, Ishiguro succeeded in making cloning the most boring topic known to man. The author inserts all of these obscure references and tid-bits that are supposed to intrigue the reader. All fall flat and had me saying: "You have got to be kidding me." The first-person narration is repetitive, one-dimensional, and as dull as can be. Neither the narrator nor the main characters has an ounce of depth. Furthermore, the "mysteries" are revealed in the very last pages of the book. The revelations are even more boring than the book itself. What a waste. This author took a potentially fascinating topic and turned it into a dreadfully uneventful account of the lives of faceless students living at a lifeless, cardboard boarding school. Do not waste your time.
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