Oliver Dowson's Reviews > Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
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By the end of the first chapter, as I began to piece together the truth behind the apparently innocent boarding school that no student ever leaves until adulthood, this book became a very disquieting read. But it’s compulsive � despite an underlying irritation that there was so much “idle chit-chat� and repetition, I couldn’t stop reading. Some reviewers seem to think it’s science fiction � I certainly didn’t read it that way. Rather, I became increasingly concerned that the underlying scenario was more likely to become reality than when the author invented it about twenty years ago.
I know it won the Booker Prize and that the author is world-famous, but I have criticisms that the story is somewhat trivialised and obvious questions such as “why didn’t any of these educated young people, knowing their fate, disappear into the general population when they could?�.
I know it won the Booker Prize and that the author is world-famous, but I have criticisms that the story is somewhat trivialised and obvious questions such as “why didn’t any of these educated young people, knowing their fate, disappear into the general population when they could?�.
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April 20, 2025
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April 24, 2025
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