2 posts tagged “childhood”

I finally picked this book up after years of people either telling me to read it or assuming I already had.

Enjoyable read, a little too tongue-in-cheek maybe for such a topic, but well researched.

Nothing shocking, or even revealing, if you know much about intersexual issues. The side issue (of incest) was the topic I found much more interesting.

Desdemona was a great, great character. Maybe one of my all-time favorites. It was worth the read just for her.

Never Let Me Go is not on my official book list for the year, but I've been curious about it for a while. I wondered why there is so little information about the plot available. After reading it I understand why. The whole plot is suspended from the idea that a group of private school children are "very special." I think I was about half way through the book before I understood where it was going.

The rest of this will be vague as I don't want to give too much away, and while it's not a topic I'm really interested in, this book found a way to explore the topic that was very fresh--even frightening realistic. I'm as liberal as the next person, but this book gave me pause.

The real beauty and power of this work is in the author's ability to tell the story without comment on the subject matter or even having the character's comment on it.

And finishing this book in Las Vegas somehow made it seem all the more plausible.