Jan. 19th, 2006

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I started reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro yesterday. Tom had to forcibly remove the book from my hands last night. It's so beautifully quiet and restrained. It covers similar ground (science outpacing ethics) as Atwood's Oryx and Crake, but in a more quiet yet more touching manner.

While reading Never Let Me Go , I'm constantly stopping myself to contemplate the scene that has just been described. There's so much that isn't said, yet you can be almost horrified by the quiet existence the characters are living with. It's all about living within boundaries that most of us couldn't even (or wouldn't even) envision. While this book is easier to read than Atwood's (which was quite overt), it's going to stay with me longer.

(I don't know why I'm gravitating back towards dystopian writing recently. There's been a list of books I've been wanting to read for a while, but I've been so busy with school and work and parenthood. I'm trying to cram a couple of years of reading into the next 3 months before Sprout comes into the world.)

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