Never Let Me Go  Okay, my probable top five books, in no particular order as as follows: Never Let Me Go  Catcher in the Rye  One Day High Fidelity  American Psycho  What really kills me about all of these is that they have all been made into films. I know it's a statement of the obvious but books aren't films, they're books. Isn't that the whole point? Rarely does an excellent book make and excellent film. At the risk of sounding like I have finally lost what little  'it' I have left, text incites the imagination in a way that film does not. Literature becomes as much a part of your imagination as that of the authors. That said I am not too much of a snob to refuse to watch film adaptations in general.  I am currently making an exception for Never Let Me Go because for me, reading the book was a deeply personal experience. However I am pretty torn at the moment because the film stars two of my favourite actors at the moment Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. I particularly loved Carey's performance in An Education. A film, of which if you admit you like, you gain an immediate and rightfully deserved tag as a Pabst drinking hipster.   Kazua Ishiguro's book details the childhood and adolescence of four young people in what is assumed to be an alternative reality, where the nature of humanity for chosen individuals is in question. It also questions the destiny and the human soul. To reveal much more would spoil the plot. What I really like about the book is that the full horror of the events of the books is revealed slowly over the course of the book rather than in a M Night Shalaman, Sixth Sense style twist. This gives the book a lasting potency.
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