Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
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Fiction, Organ donors, Cloning, Donation of organs, tissues
Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, *Never Let Me Go* is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and intimate.
19 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
I read the last forty pages standing up because I could not sit with them. Ishiguro writes acceptance as the saddest thing a person can do. I gave it five and I will never read it again.
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Michiko Kakutani reviews book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; photos (M)
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On Open Library, 144 have read it and 805 want to.
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Kazuo Ishiguro's best work?”
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“Would Never Let Me Go hit harder if it came out today rather than in 2005?”
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“Is it the best fiction book of its decade?”
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