![]() ![]() 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. Listening Length: 9 hours and 40 minutes Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Whispersync for Voice Ready Release Date: April 11. 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. In the 1970s, the small group that ran Hailsham tried to raise the ethical issues. There’s no specifically stated point of departure, but it would seem that in the 1950s scientists perfected human cloning and the public waved away ethical concerns. 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. Never let Me Go is not an alternative history novel in the way most of the novels I review are. 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. Chase never fit in with his big tight-knit family. 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. Purchase ebook/audio book Receive email from BookFunnel with your download link. Last attempt, I got the BBC abridged version. £1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0. 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. Was it going to be any better listening to the story paper-dry protagonists and their fantasy quest. 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. And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule - From Americas most celebrated true-crime writer comes the. 1 star - I don't often feel guilty at not being able to finish a book, but I do this time. I'M at the gate and several chapters into an audiobook by the time Eli arrives at. Regular Price: 20.95 Add to Cart Read By: Rosalyn Landor Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: 9.75 hours at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2. ![]()
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