I would rate this book as one in which spoilers do in fact spoil a good part of the reading experience (though I remember reading an interview with Ishiguro on the topic of the movie coming out, and he said something about not caring much if that was spoiled for his future readers).
Ishiguro's writing, as always, is beautiful, so even if you know what's going on before you start reading the novel, you've still got a wonderful book to read.
It's like reading the classics. So often we know what's going to happen even if we've not read a classic before, because the majority of classics are so well known. But I find that doesn't spoil the experience of reading a classic for the first time. Turgenev is a good example of this for me. I know what's going to happen to Bazarov, but I'm still enjoying the story very much. It's similar with Never Let Me Go, I imagine.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Book Club Discussion: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 18/10/2010 05:51:00 PM
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I have just discovered that I loaned the book to someone recently as well.
- 18/10/2010 06:27:52 PM
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Might as well start with this - what did you think of Ishiguro's subtle treatment of the key issue?
- 18/10/2010 06:34:58 PM
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Are we talking the fact that they were clones?
- 18/10/2010 10:39:25 PM
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I may not be all that good in figuring such things out, but it wasn't so evident to me at all.
- 18/10/2010 11:06:00 PM
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I can understand that.
- 19/10/2010 01:35:41 PM
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I figured it out almost straight away.
- 19/10/2010 01:33:17 PM
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Re: What was the other book?
- 03/11/2010 09:35:01 PM
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What did you think of the characters?
- 18/10/2010 06:43:22 PM
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I find it difficult to sympathise with these characters and I wonder whether that's deliberate.
- 26/10/2010 03:56:34 PM
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Since Chas is making me wonder... 
What did you think of the book? Like it, love it, hate it? *NM*
- 18/10/2010 11:13:55 PM
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What did you think of the book? Like it, love it, hate it? *NM*
- 18/10/2010 11:13:55 PM
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And I'm officially overusing the phrase "what did you think". *NM*
- 18/10/2010 11:14:15 PM
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Crap. I hope I didn't come across as too negative, because I loved the book.
- 19/10/2010 01:33:57 PM
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I liked it (with some exceptions)
- 20/10/2010 09:55:26 AM
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I thought of The Island, too - same premise, very different approach.
- 20/10/2010 04:42:48 PM
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Right. A better answer, now that I've got the book and have refreshed my memory.
- 26/10/2010 03:53:58 PM
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Did you just compare Robert Jordan's writing style favourably to Ishiguro's?
- 02/03/2011 11:20:46 PM
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What do you think of the idea of growing cloned humans for donations?
- 31/10/2010 02:53:25 PM
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Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame.
- 31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM
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