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Friday Fun Thread for February 24, 2023

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Last week, my girlfriend gave me Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (it's one of her two favourite books, and she wanted me to read it too). Yesterday I started reading it on the return flight from our weekend getaway, and slipped out of my office this afternoon so I could read the last chapter. I think the last time I found a book so compulsively readable was Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens (for reference, this edition is just shy of 300 pages). Terribly sad, moving, chilling, with characters so well-drawn I feel like I know them personally. Easily the best book I've read so far this year, and probably better than any book I read last year too.

"Never let me go" is very fucked up, I'm not sure there's another book that touched me so deeply. Actually, when I try to recall anything similar, certain moments of "The Talos Principle" come to mind, in how it builds a very relatable world and then force kicks you into the Acceptance stage of grief about it while you're utterly unprepared.