What are you reading?

JHS
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:26:08 +0000

I recently read Never Let Me Go at the urging of a colleague, and I was disappointed with it, too. I wouldn’t call it a poorer version of Holes, and it definitely had some strengths, but I thought it was really half-baked in many ways, and as the book went on my annoyance at its failures of imagination overwhelmed my admiration for Ishiguro’s ability to inhabit a voice.