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| Anyone here read "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro?; Or saw the recent film adaptation by Mark Romanek? | |
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| Yorick | Sep 18 2010, 06:06 PM Post #1 |
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I finished reading the book about eight hours before watching the superior film adaptation in Manhattan this morning. The book and film are about a woman who recounts growing up and coming of age with her two friends over the decades in dystopian Britain, first as children at a boarding school for clones referred to as donors and later to a cottage community in their late teens. "Never Let Me Go" annoyed me more than Ian McEwan's "Atonement." The latter was an overlong novella but the former was an overlong short story! Things rarely happened and the 'story' dragged on and on. I also found it ridiculous the whole premise that mankind would actually go along with letting living, sentient human beings run around as spare parts that they can use and throw out and use again till they die. No one would ever go for something so unethical and all of the clones just accepted their fate and never tried to escape. The film adaptation was much better. There's still no action but better going through 104 minutes of that than 288 pages. The movie also had the added bonus of the great performances from Carey Mulligan, rising star Andrew Garfield and Sally Hawkins. I also enjoyed the score and cinematography. What did you guys think of the book and/or film? |
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"I believe, that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you...stranger" -The Dark Knight (2008) | |
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| Sliver Slave | Sep 18 2010, 06:18 PM Post #2 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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Never heard of or seen, but I'll check the wikipedia page. |
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Something is upsetting the ostriches. Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| seascorpion | Sep 19 2010, 07:08 AM Post #3 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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i've heard of it, as long as we're discussing books here, who heres read Dune by frank herbert? its a wierd read, first time i read it i thought it was garbology worthy of a burning, second time i understood it better and realised it was in fact well written, third time i read it and it was clear to me that it was the best sci-fi i have ever read in my life |
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| Dragon wasp | Sep 20 2010, 09:47 AM Post #4 |
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haha double post that says the same thing! |
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| lamna | Sep 20 2010, 10:45 AM Post #5 |
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That happens every so often. I've not read it, I wonder why so many dystopian stories take place in Britain? Maybe it's because it seems more likely, America has laws set in stone about freedom and justice and cake for all, but in Blightly we go by precedent and if things go nasty we can picture ourselves surrendering a one of our freedoms them maybe another, if it's for a good of the country. And maybe another... Or maybe it's because we're been so close to some pretty nasty regimes and the worst America's had to deal with on their doorstep in recent history is Mexicans and First Nations, and even that was a century ago. And if we are going to let this go off topic, anyone read the Emberverse novels? They are a strange mix of a post-apocalyptic setting with a fantasy feel. I just started The High King of Montival this morning and I'm about a quarter of a way through. It's a cliché but I can't put it down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series |
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