![]() Tedium overtook me and whispered in my ear 'lots of books on the to-be-read list' and I gave in and gave up. But I'll never know, I couldn't wait that long, couldn't get to that point. The protagonist, Kathy, half the time is having a conversation with the reader (and this old man doesn’t find teenage girls that interesting). The writing style was conversationalist, which is OK but I’m not a teenage girl. Maybe if I'd made it to the end, I would have found it a brilliant piece of writing with endless golden vistas of revelations that slowly appear, delighting with each new and surprising element. It took me a long time to get into this Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro, about two-thirds of the way. But symbols for who or what? I never worked it out.Īll I got from the book was it was repetitious which made it tedious and not only were the characters forgetting everything, so was I. Chase never fit in with his big tight-knit family. It wasn't just that the characters never seemed to be anyone, it was that I kept thinking they were symbols for something and that is why a master author, as Ishiguro certainly is, had written them in such a flat way. Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Audio Book Download. Purchase ebook/audio book Receive email from BookFunnel with your download link. Well, I thought, I'm bound to be able to make it through only 2.5 hours of prose that concentrates on the essence of the book. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our. ![]() Audiobook sampler of the contemporary classic, read complete and unabridged by Kerry Fox. Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Never Let Me Go, the new novel by Kazu Ishiguro, the author of the bestseller The Remains of the Day. Last attempt, I got the BBC abridged version. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, audiobook read by Kerry Fox. My mind kept blanking out and thinking important thoughts like did I add "kitchen paper" to the shopping list or did I specify that nice soft Viva one? Stuff like that.ģ. One may look at the novel itself as a record of. ![]() Was it going to be any better listening to the story paper-dry protagonists and their fantasy quest. One of the most remarkable aspects of her new life as a carer is the amount of time Kathy must spend alone. The characters didn't have any personalities, the descriptions of them didn't bring them to life at all and I wasn't enamoured of the setting either. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of. 1 star - I don't often feel guilty at not being able to finish a book, but I do this time. Never Let Me Go audiobook, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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