Never Let Me Go vs The Boys from Brazil: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 ★★★★☆ 3.9 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Light

Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, Never Let Me Go is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.

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Cover of The Boys from Brazil The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin · 1637 ★★★★☆ 3.9 286 pages · ≈ 5 h 18 m · Demanding
“Early one evening in September of 1974 a small twin-engine plane, silver and black, sailed down onto a secondary runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas Airport, and slowing, turned aside and taxied to a hangar where a limousine stood waiting.”

A Group of Obscure Men Ninety-four civil servants. All aged Sixty-five. Harmless men. In different countries. All of them marked for death. Unknowing Guardians of a Monster Their deaths will be but the…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Never Let Me GoThe Boys from Brazil
Goodreads 3.9 (80999) —
Hardcover 3.8 (1721) 3.9 (57)
Google Books 3.5 (14) —
Apple Books 4.0 (1407) 4.5 (14)

Reception

Never Let Me GoThe Boys from Brazil
Ratings 80999 57
Editions 61 48
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 1016538 —
Written reviews 80999 —
Wikipedia attention 45475 4956
Pages 333 286

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