Okay, so I’m totally still a blog flake.
But I’m doing the book meme, because I’m reading a book that is exactly as good as everyone says it is, and it just happens to be the closest one (I know!):
“It was, as I say, a little game we all indulged in to some extent. Even so, it was Ruth who took it further than anyone else. She was the one always pretending to have finished anything anyone happened to be reading; and she was the only one with this notion that the way to demonstrate your superior reading as to go around telling people the plots of novels they were in the middle of.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
And from the flyleaf, from the review in The Onion:
“It’s amazing how Ishiguro says so much, and so well, about people who themselves say so little.”
I hate people like Ruth.
I kind of did, too, and then I read the end of the book and hated myself for hating her.
But yeah, it’s obnoxious as hell.
I couldn’t get through it, the first time. I think my problem was that I was expecting the speculative fiction bit to be more obvious, a la Atwood.
Fuck.
I hate it when the preview is different from the final version.
Here.
Such a great book! I couldn’t put it down – read the whole thing on a cross-country flight in 7 hrs. Enjoy!!
That was one of the most painfully beautiful books I’ve ever read.
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