This book is amazing. It's about us - the people of the today's world. It actually teaches us to be human beings. How? Just Read it! If you like to ponder about a book and its message, that's the right book for you.

I tried and tried to read up to the end I couldn’t. In order to know how it ends – I went to the Internet. Didn’t like the book. First, because how it is written, it’s structure - interweaving the past, the present and the future on almost every page. You read and waiting for something exciting or just interesting to happen - and just get some kind of childish, and sometimes really boring description of events. And this is while almost knowing from the beginning what is going on.

Wow. A truly haunting, beautifully written book. I saw the movie last year and had always been curious about the book, so I decided to finally read it. It is very similar to the movie. The characters are so accepting of their situation, which is heartbreaking and so very maddening. Although this book wasn't super, super addicting, I'm glad I read it and was interested in the story enough to finish it. I'll probably be thinking about this book for days.

Just Too Weird And Non-Engaging I thought the synopsis for Never Let Me Go sounded interesting,but unfortunately the book was not. I just could not come to care for any of the characters,and I felt they were total non-persons,with no personality,no rational thought,and I just no longer cared.

This was a book club read for my local library (Crystal Lake Public Library) before I joined in June of 2010 that I read on my own to catch up later on (orig. they read it for 3/2010). This is a very bizarre tale to say the least! If you do not want to know the plot do not read on because I cannot think of a way to talk about the novel without describing what happens in the pages. You think it is going to be a tale about school chums, and in a way it is, but it is more of a sci-fi tale and one that makes you think about the moral implications of cloning. The characters are essentially that, clones, who are raised in a school and eventually become donors of organs, and are proud of themselves if they can donate 4 organs before death. The main character is Kathy H., who is a counselor and recovery assistant to these "donors," a profession called "carer" in the book. She is at a crossroads in her life and looking reflectively back at the school where she "grew up" called Halisham. What she is deciding boils down to whether or not she will continue on counseling the other clones as they donate to themselves to death, their real purpose for existing, or if she will now become a donor herself. The book makes you think a lot about human nature and about our rights to exist. Although these characters are clones, I felt bad for them that they didn't have a right to a "normal" life and that there whole existence was to give until they die and that they were brainwashed into believing that life actually mattered to them when they were really just alive to supply parts for "real" people. I am disappointed that I missed the book club discussion for this one because I would have loved to have known what the other ladies thought of this one! We have not read anything remotely like it since and I have been in it for nearly 2 years now. It is definitely not your typical novel, and I would recommend it to people interested in books that make you think about what it means to be human and to sci-fi fans as well!

This was a book club read for my local library (Crystal Lake Public Library) before I joined in June of 2010 that I read on my own to catch up later on (orig. they read it for 3/2010). This is a very bizarre tale to say the least! If you do not want to know the plot do not read on because I cannot think of a way to talk about the novel without describing what happens in the pages. You think it is going to be a tale about school chums, and in a way it is, but it is more of a sci-fi tale and one that makes you think about the moral implications of cloning. The characters are essentially that, clones, who are raised in a school and eventually become donors of organs, and are proud of themselves if they can donate 4 organs before death. The main character is Kathy H., who is a counselor and recovery assistant to these "donors," a profession called "carer" in the book. She is at a crossroads in her life and looking reflectively back at the school where she "grew up" called Halisham. What she is deciding boils down to whether or not she will continue on counseling the other clones as they donate to themselves to death, their real purpose for existing, or if she will now become a donor herself. The book makes you think a lot about human nature and about our rights to exist. Although these characters are clones, I felt bad for them that they didn't have a right to a "normal" life and that there whole existence was to give until they die and that they were brainwashed into believing that life actually mattered to them when they were really just alive to supply parts for "real" people. I am disappointed that I missed the book club discussion for this one because I would have loved to have known what the other ladies thought of this one! We have not read anything remotely like it since and I have been in it for nearly 2 years now. It is definitely not your typical novel, and I would recommend it to people interested in books that make you think about what it means to be human and to sci-fi fans as well!

This was a book club read for my local library (Crystal Lake Public Library) before I joined in June of 2010 that I read on my own to catch up later on (orig. they read it for 3/2010). This is a very bizarre tale to say the least! If you do not want to know the plot do not read on because I cannot think of a way to talk about the novel without describing what happens in the pages. You think it is going to be a tale about school chums, and in a way it is, but it is more of a sci-fi tale and one that makes you think about the moral implications of cloning. The characters are essentially that, clones, who are raised in a school and eventually become donors of organs, and are proud of themselves if they can donate 4 organs before death. The main character is Kathy H., who is a counselor and recovery assistant to these "donors," a profession called "carer" in the book. She is at a crossroads in her life and looking reflectively back at the school where she "grew up" called Halisham. What she is deciding boils down to whether or not she will continue on counseling the other clones as they donate to themselves to death, their real purpose for existing, or if she will now become a donor herself. The book makes you think a lot about human nature and about our rights to exist. Although these characters are clones, I felt bad for them that they didn't have a right to a "normal" life and that there whole existence was to give until they die and that they were brainwashed into believing that life actually mattered to them when they were really just alive to supply parts for "real" people. I am disappointed that I missed the book club discussion for this one because I would have loved to have known what the other ladies thought of this one! We have not read anything remotely like it since and I have been in it for nearly 2 years now. It is definitely not your typical novel, and I would recommend it to people interested in books that make you think about what it means to be human and to sci-fi fans as well!

Perhaps if I didn’t know that there was a sci-fi twist waiting to be revealed in this novel I would have enjoyed it more. Although I didn’t know the specific twist, I still knew that something was coming, and the languid pace and drowsy meanderings of the narrator made me want to scream. Only after finishing the book was I able to look back and finally enjoy the narrating style – but during the book I was frustrated. This is because Ishiguro did an amazing thing and created a story told by a clone, for other clones … but clones aren’t the ones reading it. Kathy’s narration both pulled me in and pushed me away – she is telling us this beautiful story that at its core has emotional elements that everyone can relate to, but at the same time is framed in experiences that I couldn’t understand at all. I believe that the author and I have a fundamental disagreement about what it is to be human: he is saying that to be human is to want to love, but I think to be human is to want to live.

I want to say it's a good book, but i just can't. I got really confused and bored really quick. I stopped half way and just quit. I've NEVER done that before!!! I always suck it up and read the book no matter how bored i get, but this book :( , was a disappointment. Honestly, I just kept turning the pages until I saw the word tommy, because i wanted this book to be a teen romance book. I'll probably just read it again once im more mature.

An overall disappointing work by a former winner of Britain's Booker Prize (for "The Remains of the Day"). This story was an attempt at science fiction but greatly missed the mark. I was looking for the expertise in writing exhibited by Ishiguro's other work, but it fell quite short of the mark. (April 2006)