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This book has been stalking me all of 2015! Every bookstore I went into, every charity shop I passed.... This book was always there! I have this set to be read for Week 4.
Never Let Me Go

I have this on my TBR so I'm looking forward to your thoughts.

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I'm reading this for 35. An award winning book. I fiddled with it in dystopia first, but since there are more of those... I'm very excited about reading it and hearing others' opinions, too.

I wasn't overly enamoured with this one, but I seem to be in the minority there. I couldn't connect with the characters. It's certainly an interesting dystopian world though, very much so.

I'm reading this one for week 4 - a book by an author you discovered in 2015. I read A Pale View of Hills for a book club last year. Wasn't a huge fan of that one - maybe this one will be better.

I just finished this book last night as my dystopian. I thought it was a great book and I really liked the writing style. I was going to put this originally as my award-winning book, but ended up switching it.

I wish GoodReads allowed half stars, since I really wanted to give this one a solid 4.5, since I couldn't really settle on whether it was a 4 or a 5. For a dystopian, they really didn't spend much time talking about the world or how it became that way. It was a shame, because it seemed like a really interesting one. For me, it was more of a character story than a dystopian, but I really enjoyed the book as a whole.

@Bridget, finding this in a Charity Shop would be pretty meta (especially if the charity shop were in Norfolk).

I also read this for the Dystopia (Week 48) topic.

Anybody have recommendations for other books by Ishiguro?

I read this for week 5: A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name.

I liked this book a lot and especially how the author slowly gave more information throughout the book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

J wrote: "Anybody have recommendations for other books by Ishiguro? .."

If you know other people who have read it, the Buried Giant is really good, but you need to discuss it cause everyone I know who has read it needs to talk it out. It's about a world covered in this mist that makes people forget the past and he writes as if part of the world. Its magical but also leaves lots of questions you want to discuss. I loved it but know of people who hated it too,

I was going to read Remains of the Day for anti-hero week but am now saving it for next year and epistolary novel week. I've heard Artist in a Floating World is weird but good.

I enjoyed this book immensely too! I mean Never Let Me Go, not Buried Giant, but that is on my list of to read books too. I liked that Never Let Me Go have a sort of haunting quality in the narration style, I think it's because the narrator is thinking back, which makes you think, what's happening the present that makes her want to focus on the past?

I didn't know there was a movie based on this book, Has anybody here seen it and recommend it? I already read the book, although I enjoyed it, I felt that something in the story was missing. I would have run away. I never understood why they didn't :(

Read for Week #42-A best book of the 21st Century.

Synopsis from Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ: "As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life, and for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. "

An interesting premise, rated it three stars.

Week#9: A book in the middle of your to be read list

There was a coldness, an emptiness to this book that really irked me. At the same time, I felt the icy/detached narrator, Kathy, was appropriate. The concept was interesting, but when it came down to the end, I don't know if I really cared one way or the other. Hmmmmm....a real head scratcher. I did enjoy it and continue to read it, so there must have been something there.

So I just finished this one and I'm debating on which prompt to fit it into for the 2018 list. I kindddd of think it is an alternate history, since it was written in 2005 about a time "after the war" and it mentions the "fifties and sixties". It's not explicit in the time period, whether its in the 2050s or the 1950s, but there's nothing futuristic about it, outside of the cloning stuff.

It may be a stretch, but I wanted to see what you all thought since you've read the book. I also have it possibly slotted for literary fiction, full sentence title, or sci-fi.

I would call it Dystopian rather than Alternative History, and definitely wouldn’t consider it Literary Fiction (as it’s more for books that don’t fit into a genre, which this one does - as Sci-Fi). 😊

I agree with Jody. It was far more dystopian for me. I wouldn’t categorise it as alternative history. Maybe it could fit under the literary category.

I never thought of literary fiction as being a catch-all type category... I thought it was more about awards... a "higher quality" of literature. If that's the case, then this one would definitely fit under that category, despite also being sci-fi, just based on the awards it's won.

I’m probably not explaining it well, and you can definitely find better explanations out there! But from what I’ve read, it’s kinda like the antithesis of genre fiction. Although this is definitely on the literary side, I still wouldn’t consider it Literary Fiction. That said though, it’s definitely not black and white. 😊

has filed it under literary fiction, it's your call to see if you're feeling good about using it for this prompt!

Seems to me it could be literary fiction, especially since the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

I ended up using it for Sci-Fi because that prompt will be much harder for me to fill. Thanks for the advice though!

I read this for the 2019 challenge. It took forever for me to get into it. Finally half way through I got into it. It definitely was missing the world building. I guess towards the end we got a little glimpse but I guess I wanted a little more. I'm sure the author intended to keep us in the dark since the characters were in the dark about it. I ended up rating it 3 stars. I'm glad I read it but it was not a favorite for me.

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