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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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really liked it
bookshelves: own, fiction, make-you-put-a-gun-in-your-mouth

What's scariest about this book is the idea of people living the way they're "supposed to" without ever having one real thought of freedom their entire life. But to a lesser extent isn't that how most of us live? Work 40 hours a week, don't break the laws, stop at stop signs at 3am when no ones around for miles because of some vague ingrained fear of authority (or worse the rational 'choice' that it's just easier to come to complete stop because you don't want to be hassled and you probably have weed in the car, Jesus, as if you were some type of fucking common criminal, no this is not a digression this is at the heart of what this book is about.)

This book reminds me of one of my favorite Dostoevsky quote:"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him." Actually, everything reminds me of that quote. I have awesome Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ quotes (two paragraph rant about how people "stole my Kerouac quote and they don't know what it means" removed because that was a digression)

In the end I just felt like he got some basic stuff about human nature wrong. I even gave it 3 stars but I changed it to 4 because I'm still thinking about it.



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Reading Progress

May 4, 2010 – Shelved
May 4, 2010 – Shelved as: own
May 8, 2010 – Shelved as: fiction
June 24, 2011 – Started Reading
June 26, 2011 – Finished Reading
November 15, 2011 – Shelved as: make-you-put-a-gun-in-your-mouth

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message 1: by Jason (new)

Jason Mills You talk about conformity, yet exhibit an invigoratingly maverick refusal to actually tell us anything about the content of the book you are "reviewing". That's stickin' it to da man, sistah!


Kristen The cartoon is the summary.


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