Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I've seen the movie before reading the book. I don't think I'd understand it much though if I didn't see the movie first.

The book was consistently sad for me. I am not sure if it was all due to the fact that I know it doesn't have a happy-ending or it's just Ishiguro's way of narrating. There was a different kind of sadness though. It wasn't the kind that I felt pass through me...I only felt pity for the characters. The 'sadness' didn't really came to me.

I did not understand why and how it was possible that I couldn't relate to this certain kind of emotion. But when I reached the part where they came to Madame and several revelations pushed through, I sort of thought that maybe it was because the characters weren't exactly humans...just sort of modeled and was trained to be one of us. Perhaps, Ishiguro was trying to make the characters be 'limited' or something. Well if that is the case, I think the author had a success.

It was a good concept though. It might be possible, even. Although, if in the future, something like this would happen, I'd hope to not be able to witness such reality. My sympathy might translate to sadness successfully.

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