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Summary: A very weird book.
Review: This book was okay, but could have been much better. I think it skips around too much and at times, gives to many or too little details.
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Summary: boring!!!!
Review: This book was on a mandatory reading list in my school so I had to read it. I still can't believe that teachers would want kids to read this. This book is poorly written and boring. The plot wasn't great and neither were the characters. Considering that I am an avid reader who enjoys reading almost anything, its sad that I could barely get through this. It must be hell fro someone who doesn't like to read. Please, don't waste your money or your time on this!
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Summary: Confussing
Review: This book was very strange. In the end, it was depressing. This book did not relly explan what was happening. I did not enjoy this book at all.
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Summary: Eva! The one and only.
Review: This book would have to be one of the best books i have ever read. Which isn't many. It explaines how a young girl was put into a chimps body and had to live like that for the rest of her life. She had to lern how to use the chimps body to move and comunicate with other chimps. This book is kinda like the kind of book that is boaring in the begining but is like "wow" at the end. I recamend this book to anyone who doesn't like to read. It will open up your mind and make you think about all the different storys and feelings there really are out in the world that is all writen on paper. But to expearience them "you" have to make the efert.
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Summary: An unsettling "far out" read
Review: This story opens as 13-year-old Eva wakes up in a hospital bed to find that she has been seriously injured in a car crash and has been in a coma for months. As she slowly regains consciousness, she experiences strange sensations and dreams until she learns that her life has been saved with an unprecedented medical procedure in which her memories have been implanted into the brain and body of a chimpanzee. Eva is set in the future, in a dystopian urban world in which humans have destroyed most of the world and are isolated in super high rises and fed a steady stream of television. Eva's father is a researcher of captive, habituated chimps with whom Eva was essentially raised. Eva's operation and recovery were sponsored by a manufacturer of juice products, who contractually own her and exploit her to advertise their products. As she recovers and adjusts to her new life, she begins to identify with the chimp part of herself and relates to the other chimps, leading her to resist her handlers and her parents and campaign for greater autonomy for herself and her fellow chimps. Eva eventually becomes the poster child for animal rights activists and a figure to whom many people look as an inspiration as the human race is degenerating. Eventually, like her Biblical namesake, Eva is sent to an Edenic paradise with a troop of chimps to teach them to live in the wild and be televised worldwide for the entertainment of humans. As events transpire, Eva and her troop are left possibly to repopulate the planet and begin the evolution of the human race again. The story raises all kinds of existential questions about what makes us who we are, what is our relationship with animals, and what are our responsibilities to nature and the environment. These thought-provoking themes are balanced by suspenseful action and well-developed characters (including the chimps). With the highly introspective nature of this story and the slow and mysterious revelation of the plot, this is a challenging read. Eva is a terrific book for adolescents asking their own big questions and learning how to find their own opinions and voices.
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Summary: This is an example of an unbelievable book!
Review: This story was unbelievable in many ways, not just because the idea of transplanting a human brain into a chimpanzee's body is incredible, but also because of the lack of emotion in the main character. We had a very hard time understanding why there was no anger involved in this incident. How could Eva not have been even a little bit angry at her parents for doing this to her? Many of the students in our book discussion group could not connect with the relationship between Eva and her mother. Most thought the book was extremely unemotional, a surprise considering the topic. Some students, however, felt that it was an example of the coldness of our society.
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Summary: Good Book!
Review: This was an excellent read. The storyline is simple yet intriguing. And the emotions... so true and honest. Must try it!
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Summary: Required reading for everyone!
Review: This wonderful book goes beyond the normal sci-fi book into the realms of social commentary, but without pushing it down one's throat.
The story really makes us think about how we would react, being thrust into someone else's body, unasked and unable to do anything about it, nor could the donor! It questions the rights of parents, doctors, sociologists, scientists to use their power in such borderline cases. The way this is handled is touchingly sensitive and surprisingly low-key for a book aimed at this age-group; it allows the reader to form his/her own conclusions, which generally arrive at the same point that author is aiming for.
The ending is is especially well done and one's heart leaps as Eva makes her decision - good on her!Far better than many mainstream science fiction novels - this rates with the best of Sheri Tepper or Connie Willis. *****
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Summary: A strange but ... thought-provoking book
Review: Well, I'll tell you one thing - this is not an easy book to read. It doesn't capture your attention, the way it is written. If it was written a little differently, even with the same plot line, it would have been more interesting. It kind of makes you think about the way we are heading, and I really didn't like this book very much. It wasn't interesting and, like someone else said, it was kind of sloppily written at times. Too many details at times, and too little details at times. Read this if you want to, but don't expect it to be extremely interesting or anything.
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Summary: Wow! Very thought provoking.
Review: What do a chimpanzee and a thirteen-year-old girl have in common? More than you think. When Eva is in a car accident and thrown into a deadly coma, her life becomes intertwined with a female chimp's named kelly. Eva can tell something is not right when she wakes up and and can't move. Her bosy is numb all over and she can't speak. She is struck with horror as she sees herself in the mirror for the first time! Will she ever be the same again? The answer comes faintly from her poor mother's lips, "no."
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