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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
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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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Damn! You like Raskolnikov. Haha. I read Crime & Punishment a long, long time ago. Loved it. When I was young, I would re-read Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols" & "The Antichrist". There's so much interesting stuff in his writing. You cant get it all 1 time
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Oh, you read Nietzsche, huh? I love his "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Man is a rope between the ape and the Superman. That phrase has been my motto all my life since I was 17.
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Read a lot of Nietzsche when I was younger. He was a great writer, a literary artist, aside from being a philosopher. A master at aphorisms. He would have fit right into Twitter, having to condense your message down to its bare essence.