(1) Wow, I didn't know it's was legal in some countries to buy an organ from a living person, and from a young orphan girl too. I'm ashamed to be this ignorant.
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(2) So, what the British author Kazuo Ishiguro wrote in his recent bestseller "Never Let Me Go" is not entirely fiction after all: something similar has actually been happening in real life, hasn't it?
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(3) For people who don't know it, "Never Let Me God" is a sort of science fiction where young orphans are raised in order entirely to give their organs when in their high teens and are not allowed to get married or live until adulthood. The novel has been turned into a movie too.
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Gosh, I just wrote: "Never Let Me God."
I should have written "Go," not God.
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So, these kids are bred like domestic farm animals in order to harvest their organs? Holy shit. That's fucked up.
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(1) Yes, that's right. The novel is set in a near-future Britiain, depicting a comfortable-looking orphanage where dozens of orphans are raised and well-educated. They are allowed to have all the sex they want and to love each other. But they're not allowed to get married.
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(2) SPOILER ALERT: When well-grown, they are taken to a hospital to donate their organs, one organ at a time. When they have lost so many organs that they can live no longer, they are injected with a lethal poison for mercy killing. The author is Japanese-British, by the way.
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(3) For those who hate spoilers, I apologize. But the true beauty of a great novel is not the plot or the thrill or surprise out of unexpected, dramatic happenings. It is rather the feelings and thoughts, soul-searching, human interactions, conflicts, agony that are important.
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A really good film I can watch over & over
I'm the same way. When I was a high school student, I had three favorite books. I read about 100 times each. One of them was "The Analects," a collection of ancient Chinese Confucius' teachings. The other two were collections of philosophical and religious essays.
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If I read or watch something only once, that means I don't like it enough. I read "Crime and Punishment" 12 times. I listened to an audiobook of it about 100 times.
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