09-19-2008, 09:01 AM | #1 |
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Looking for a s-f book I've read, but forgot title/author
I've read this science-fiction book a while ago and some days ago I remembered it, but not the title and author. I think I got it from the library …
[EDIT: The book I searched for is "Never Let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Possible spoilers below.] It's about an institute that seems to be an orphanage, but in reality it's a place where they raise clones of humans to be used as organ donors. The perspective is from a girl being raised there, as far as I remember, and she discovers some irregularities such as that the children go to a "special place" once they reach a certain age and never come back. A recurring theme is her rocking a baby doll and listening to a certain song from a cassette. One of the overseers at the institute notices her doing that and weeps, because as it later becomes evident all of the clones are unable to have children. Does someone know what book this is? Last edited by IceHand; 09-20-2008 at 09:13 AM. |
09-19-2008, 09:05 AM | #2 |
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It sounds a bit like 'Never Let me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro, except that I don't recall the doll episode.
At any rate, you may well like the Ishiguro novel. |
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09-19-2008, 09:24 AM | #3 |
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Yes, that's the one! Thank you very much.
I don't know why, but I remember the doll episode very clearly. It somehow left a mark. |
09-19-2008, 09:26 AM | #4 |
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My pleasure, IceHand.
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09-19-2008, 09:52 AM | #5 |
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i love ishiguro and this one is on my list to read so i will have to try to forget this thread (that'll teach me... ) but perhaps i'll avoid reading it at night, it sounds closer to "a view of pale hills" (which was so subtly chilling that i don't think i slept for a month after that) than to "remains of the day"...
that ishiguro... genius, but no quarter for the reader. |
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09-19-2008, 10:31 AM | #6 |
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On a similar theme, there's the movie "The Island" who's Wikipedia entry mentions Michael Marshall Smith's novel "Spares"
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i'll probably have forgotten all those details by the time i read it. thanks for adding the spoiler warning now that you've found the book though. |
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09-23-2008, 06:23 AM | #10 |
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I have read spares also a good book about using clones for spare parts.
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