This review will contain spoilers, so don’t read on if you want to read this book in the future!
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This book started off very strong for me. I really enjoyed Ishiguro’s writing style, but then the story bogged down in the middle, and by the ending, I was really mad. I didn’t like how it ended AT ALL. So they do nothing? They just coolly accept their fate? That, to me, proves to me that the “students” were soulless. They never truly loved each other from my perspective, and they couldn’t see that they could at least TRY to get out of their situation? I’m wondering what Ishiguro’s point here was. Is he saying they had a soul or not? If you’ve read the book, please give me your take!
(Oh, and another thing. . . is disorientated a word? I always thought it was disoriented. Just another thing that irked me.)
2005, 288 pp.
Rating: 3.5
I read this one almost a year ago. I rated it a 4/5. I can’t answer your question about the book, but “disorientated” is in the dictionary.
I loved this book and I think partly because they didn’t fight back. It was more a view of what the world could be like, and how would they ever have fought back? It wasn’t that they were soulless, but raised with no hope, or love, and it never even occured to them to fight back.
The most they wanted was the chance to get married, or be together(I’m forgetting details?) And if anything, I think all those art experiments led them to have souls.
I loved the writing, and how he spun out the story, so slowly, that it seemed normal, which is how they were raised too, with their info slowly revealed so that it seemed normal to them.
“Disorientated” is the preferred form in England, while “disoriented” is preferred in the United States.
My review of Never Let Me Go from about a year ago. I think the author meant to show how thoroughly someone could be conditioned to accept his fate. Scary stuff.
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