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this is the SECOND time my book club has chosen a book that spoils other books smh i'm gonna crash out
luckily this time i'd already read the book they spoiled - never let me go - but seriously, what the fuck?
it's not just me who thinks it's really poor form to spoil major plot points of other books in a novel, right? why does this keep happening?!
— Aug 25, 2026 12:20PM
luckily this time i'd already read the book they spoiled - never let me go - but seriously, what the fuck?
it's not just me who thinks it's really poor form to spoil major plot points of other books in a novel, right? why does this keep happening?!
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Aug 26, 2026 01:00AM
How old an other book are we talking? I don't mind if it's eg Homer.
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@Alex I dislike it even when it's a very old book - I've never been a fan of the "but it's so old!" defence because there are thousands of old classics I'd like to read, and people get around to reading classics at various points in their lives, so I think it's bad form to spoil major plot points of any book/film/etc, especially if there's little to no relevance to the plot (as was the case here). There are always exceptions to this, e.g. when the plot twist is so wildly famous it is reasonable to expect that 99.9% of people reading the book will be familiar with it (ending of Romeo and Juliet, "Luke, I am your father", etc.)
But, to answer your question, it wasn't even a classic, it was Never Let Me Go, which is about 20 years old!
That is a bit too close, but, if it's the big twist rather than specifics, I thought that was pretty much the pitch as well? Certainly I know it (and mutter about it being a Spares rip-off) while never having gone near NLMG itself.
@AlexYou do have a point there, but the book's blurb doesn't mention anything about the (view spoiler) and part of the fun of the book for me was figuring out what they were, so I'd have been pretty bummed if I'd read this book first and found out about that. Maybe everyone else knows about it and I'd just been living under a rock, though!
(As an aside, I've noticed Ishiguro does tend to rip-off other books with regards to sci-fi elements. Klara and the Sun was also nothing new. But because he's a "Literary Fiction Author" he's hailed as a genius. However, that's a gripe for another time!)
I don't think it's an egregious sin, for sure. I just thought it was unnecessary and runs the risk of mildly spoiling a book for other readers, so was best left out.
Yeah I did Remains at school, liked it on a first read, but then the more we studied it the more cynical it felt, so I was already primed to be even more cynical than usual when he did the litfic pivot into definitely not SF honest. Although from the trailer, it looks like Taika might have made the Klara film into something worth watching.