I finished the first book on my Summer Reading Challenge - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read it in a day and a half. I was really chilled by it. Scared. Very sad. And I am GLAD nobody leaked to me what it was really about ... I went into it pure. The revelations that came came slowly, and were that much more horrible. I actually was going to finish it last night - it was only about 10 pm but I was exhausted - due to the Bloomsday marathon the day before. I lay in bed, and was nearly done with it - and I suddenly got this creepy feeling, uneasy - like: I need to go to sleep now. If I finish this book now, I might have nightmares - or I will not be able to sleep ... and more than anything else right now - I need SLEEP.
So I reluctantly put the book down with 20 pages to go. Very unlike me.
Slept like a baby. Woke up with a sore neck though - I can't move my head. Typical. Made a cup of coffee, and finished the last 20 pages.
I was right to put it off. Now it's the light of day, the sun is shining - and I can shake off the effect of the book a bit easier.
More later.
Posted by sheilaThis is one of my favorite books of the last few years. It's haunting and beautiful and chilling and important.
Posted by: Annie at June 18, 2007 10:46 AMVery important, indeed. And so unlike his other books (which I also love.)
Posted by: Kate at June 18, 2007 11:50 AMKate - You know, I had the same thought at points. Is this the same author as Remains of the Day??? Very convincing narrator, I thought. (In both cases - I'm just saying the voice was so totally different in this one)
I haven't read any of his other books - but now I think I have to go back and do so. I loved Remains of the Day - and then this? He's something else!!
Posted by: red at June 18, 2007 12:51 PM