Book · 2009 · Fiction
Never Let Me Go
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It's a thrilling novel and I love Never Let Me Go.
What they say about it
- Dystopian novel classification2
- Explores a society of clones“underclass of clones”2
The best things said about it
Very influenced by Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
Never Let Me Go, which I think I characterize it recently as the quietest dystopian novel that might ever exist.
How does a society normalize an entire underclass of clones that exist to donate organs because that's what has happened and never let me go.
He wrote Remains of the Day, he wrote Never Let Me Go, and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the world.
Tommy Vietor Pod Save America · Apr 2020 The novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which my daughter gave me for Christmas.
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How it comes up
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8 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a haunting dystopian novel that explores the poignant lives of students at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school who slowly discover a dark and tragic truth about their engineered existence. On The Book Review podcast, Rika Jones expressed her deep love for the thrilling novel during a special feature on the author. R.F. Kuang discussed on How I Write how she was heavily influenced by Ishiguro's confessional and restrained narrative tone when working on her own short stories. Alexandra Alter praised Ishiguro's spare and elliptical writing style, comparing the first-person narrator of this boarding school tale to the butler in The Remains of the Day. John Williams, Sam Tannanhouse, and Greg Coles all shared their experiences of reading the book, with Coles noting that he received his copy as a Christmas gift from his daughter, and Tannanhouse mentioning that he and his wife read it aloud together. Gilbert Cruz also analyzed the dystopian plot elements while exploring common thematic threads across Kazuo Ishiguro's broader literary bibliography, cementing the novel's status as a modern classic of speculative fiction.
Every mention
Rika Jones it's a thrilling novel and I love never let me go 3
“and in Never Let Me Go the Clones who we spend most of our time with in the book they're cloned from other human beings”
“what I realized because I went back and looked at has early work and never let me go is is a novel that's very present in my mind”
“it's a thrilling novel and I love never let me go”
Gilbert Cruz and then there is Never Let Me Go which I think I characterize it recently as the quietest dystopian novel… 4
“and then there is Never Let Me Go which I think I characterize it recently as the quietest dystopian novel that might ever exist”
“and never let me go is a dystopian novel”
“okay I am going to do a little plot giveaway but not of this book rather of Never Let Me Go”
“how does a society normalize an entire underclass of clones that exist to donate organs because that's what has happened and never let me go”
Alexandra Alter he's very got this very spare elliptical idiosyncratic style where you have this first person narrator like… 1
“he's very got this very spare elliptical idiosyncratic style where you have this first person narrator like the butler in Remains of the Day or or the girl in uh Never Let Me Go which is a boarding school in England”
Greg Cowles one is the novel Never Let Me Go by kajo ishiguro which my daughter gave me for Christmas 1
“one is the novel Never Let Me Go by kajo ishiguro which my daughter gave me for Christmas”
John Williams so it's funny that she writes about ishiguro because I the first ishiguro I read was never let me go 1
“so it's funny that she writes about ishiguro because I the first ishiguro I read was never let me go”
R.F. Kuang very influenced by Kazu Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. 1
“very influenced by Kazu Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.”
Sam Tanenhaus we're alternating two books I had never read uh Never Let Me Go by uh isig Guru which our daughter liked so… 1
“we're alternating two books I had never read uh Never Let Me Go by uh isig Guru which our daughter liked so we're reading that”
Tommy Vietor he wrote remains of the day he wrote never let me go and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the… 1
“he wrote remains of the day he wrote never let me go and those are two of my absolute favorite books in the world”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
“well I know I that red never let me go and I I have to say that I was not I know that you and Rika are huge fans”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I think when I read this book it might have been around the time that never let me go came out which was maybe about 20 20 years ago it's uh 2005”
“kazuo ishiguro the British novelist who has made the list a couple of times he's uh the author of the remains of the day he's the author of never let me go”
“I'm extremely excited for the buried which is ishiguro's first novel in about a decade since never let me go”
“I read never let me go by kazuo ishiguro and the soul of a new machine by Tracy Kidder”