No. You need to remove your brain and any sort of comprehensive reading skills for it to make sense.
Oh. Hmmm, so should I skip it?
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Feb 22, 2006 9:51:41 am PST #9950 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Aims - Feb 22, 2006 9:54:04 am PST #9951 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Maybe. I don't know. I'm bitter about that book. You might like it. It is an easy read, mostly. It doesn't get as entwined as Wicked did.
sj - Feb 22, 2006 9:59:07 am PST #9952 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Aimee, I thought you were really enjoying it when you first started reading it?
Aims - Feb 22, 2006 9:59:45 am PST #9953 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I was. The ending pissed me off and the more I thought about the book, the more I got mad at it.
Volans - Feb 22, 2006 10:24:45 am PST #9954 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Ah, the story that made me wish I could go back in time and prevent Ray Bradbury from signing away the movie rights.
Even if you'd come back to the present to find that Paris Hilton was now President?
Fred Pete - Feb 22, 2006 10:32:29 am PST #9955 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Even if you'd come back to the present to find that Paris Hilton was now President?
Sadly, that might be an improvement.
billytea - Feb 22, 2006 10:50:10 am PST #9956 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It hit me similarly. I had no idea I even cared until, all the sudden, I was a freakin' mess. It was very impressive, because I knew Ishiguro was heading towards a conclusion like that, but when it arrived, it just devastated me.
Ishiguro does that brilliantly. Remains of the Day hit me like that. For some reason, I wasn't as affected by Never Let Me Go, but I'm not sure why.
Hayden - Feb 22, 2006 11:07:55 am PST #9957 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've heard that from a few other people, but Never Let Me Go is the first Ishiguro novel I've read.
billytea - Feb 22, 2006 12:29:26 pm PST #9958 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've heard that from a few other people, but Never Let Me Go is the first Ishiguro novel I've read.
I've just read the two, but I have When We Were Orphans sitting on my pile of the Unread at home. I like his style a great deal. Someone who can produce such an emotional broadside without you ever seeing it coming is a remarkable talent.
Hayden - Feb 22, 2006 1:26:42 pm PST #9959 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Seriously! I compared him to a magician on my blog. Marilynne Robinson has a somewhat similar masterful approach to subtle realism and emotional misdirection.