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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
· published 2005 · read 2020-01-25
★★★★☆
Excellent dystopian storytelling in Never Let Me Go – not loud, not ostentatious, not yelling "THIS IS A DYSTOPIA, GET IT?!" at every opportunity. The narrator's voice was extremely well-done – strong, recognisable, but realistic at the same time. The unveiling of their lived reality was slow, and good – it allowed you to stay a step ahead, without that victorious feeling of having pulled one over the book. Interesting how the world described is terribly depressing, yet the book didn't once feel sad or depressing or tedious to me.
Battle Royale
by Koushun Takami
· published 1999 · read 2018-09-27
★☆☆☆☆
Battle Royale is a badly written Hunger Games in a fictional contemporary totalitarian Asian state. The writing was truly bad, and the characters too. Do not recommend.