Never Let Me Go

Nobel Prize? One of the best books of the 21st century? I must be missing something. It was still enjoyable, great premise, eerie setting, often entertaining socially critiquing writing style and some great moral questions. However the writing style could also lend itself to be somewhat pedantic (one of the final exchanges, that touch on the title of the novel, while having a nice final thrust to the message of the book, I also found it feeling like fan fiction...) This made some exchanges in the book a bit laborious and kind of broke the immersion for me a bit.
However I think it's also possible that the popularity of this book has worked against it, since the main plot point isn't necessarily meant to be known before going in. The back sleeve mentions nothing about it, and it's not properly revealed until well into the novel. Unfortunately best of lists will readily say this plot point, and I think it ruins part of what Ishiguro was trying to do here. He has a nice way of controlling the provision of information, but knowing this plot point before hand meant I was waiting awhile for it to be revealed in the book. I'm not going to say what it is of course, and I hope in the unlikely scenario someone happens to read this, and they've not read any reviews or blurbs about the book outside of it, they'll simply pick it up and start with no other knowledge about it.