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Summary: AMAZING book
Review: The House of the Scorpion is a book that will leave you in a grace period upon finishing it - you will want to just sit and ponder the story and it's issues before beginning a new book. It is a book that, while not completely relevant to our modern society, almost everyone can relate to through the characters feelings and struggles. I couldn't help but fall in love with Matt, the main character. I have never felt more compassion for a main character when he is struggling as when Matt had to. This story is just plain heart-wrenching. Nancy Farmer created a wonderfully unique story. There is humour and there is pain. It will leave some sort of impact on all who read it.
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Summary: Scorpion review
Review: This is a pretty cool book. It really shows the difference between what we see as ignorance and curiosity of young people. I mean, a lot of people were all talking about how cool all the other little fantasy books and stuff like that are, but I'd definitley rate this number one. The book is about this boy, Mat, who finds out that he is clone, and has to live trying to find out the meaning of his existence in some totally freaked up world. I mean it's really not very distant in the future, but when you have countries named Opium you know something's wrong. I find it interesting the way that he focused his mind off the discrimination against his own clone people in world. Also, this book shows the natural greed that humans have, and are willing to enslave people beyond their ability of thought; beyond hopelessness. Mat is a very intelligence person who has to learn that some things just "go bad" and we cannot love evil for true evil cannot ever really and truly love us back. It's quite a moral story definitely deserving all the prestigious honors on the front. You really should read, it's definitely worth the time. Intelligent and cool book.
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Summary: 5 stars, I'd give it 10 if I could
Review: This book was excellent. I dont usually read science-fiction books but everyone who has read this has raved about it. I couldnt agree more. I just could not put this book down. I had to know what was going to happen next. Matteo Alacran was "harvested" a clone but grows into a human as the story progresses and meets lots of interesting characters along the way. I just cant get over how good this book was. Its takin its place among my favorites.
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Summary: House of Scorpion
Review: This is a great book. Usually I don't like reading sci-fi books but author made it realistic too. Since most of the plot has been explained already, I'll skip that. The cool thing about this book is that you learn and change as Matt is. When new revelations about clones, Opium, or El Patron is said, you're shocked just like he is. This is a great book (I know, already said that) but the ending is bittersweet. If you like this book, read The Eye, Ear, and the Arm also by Nancy Farmer.
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Summary: The Best
Review: This book is the best of all best! I have read this book about 3 times and still haven't got bored of it. You should read this book!
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Summary: Keeps you hooked reading until the very last page.
Review: This book in my own two words is "very touching." It includes romance, comedy here and there, and of course still keeps its name. Nancy Farmer wrote this book to take place during the future and uses Mexican words in the script. I find the wording very detailed as if you could picture every single scene going on in your head. The story is about a clone named Matteo Alacran. He lived in a house in the poppy fields with his care taker Celia until he was discovered. When he found out about being a clone. He was often mistreated until El Patron found him. Matt is El Patron's clone. He is pampered and taken care of by a burly body guard named Tam Lin. As his life goes on, Matt learns about what El Patron will do to him by the hints of Tam Lin. (But you will find out what will happen later in the review) He loves Maria and they sneak out into a secret passage to be together. Although Matt is a clone, she loves him anyway and doesn't care about the difference. When El Patron needs a new heart. Matt is taken away to die and give him a transplant. Butt Matt escapes into another trouble. He must work in San Luis in a plankton reserve. They are fed plankton and are badly treated. He befriends Chacho, Fildelito, and Ton Ton. Of course there is more. Matt sees Maria again. But you have to read the rest to figure it all out. Hope this was helpful It covers abou 3/4 of the story. Thanx,
Jing
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Summary: Thought provoking and very intriguing
Review: House of the Scorpion I recently finished reading House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, and I was blown away. Taking place about 50 to 70 years from the present in a country called Opium. Opium, a strip of land separating America and Mexico, is a country created by drug lords. Opium was formed when a group of drug lords (or "farmers") proposed to the two countries a deal that no farmers would sell their products to Mexico or America and would even catch any illegal immigrants trying to escape across the border. This was all in return for a strip of land that would be one of the largest centers of crime in the world. Matt, a clone of one of the most powerful of these farmers, is thrown into a world of corruption, deceit, and lies. And as if that wasn't bad enough, he is a clone, which are commonly regarded as rabid animals. From the beginning, Matt is in an never-ending struggle to discover true morals. He is able, however, to form relationships with humans that are not blinded by ingrained prejudices. One such character, a girl named Maria, grows up with Matt who is the only clone she knows. This lets her see the social issues of Opium in a different perspective than most others and sets and interesting spin on this already deep plot. I found that the ethical decisions that the characters are faced with in House of the Scorpion were not just poignant because of the way this talented author presented them; but also because many of these situations we face internationally and personally today. Farmer does a great job of keeping you in the dark with Matt, and you have to learn with him in a harsh, unrelenting world. Also, she is able to mix two drastically different periods with relative ease, a plot change that you will find if you read the book. I helps keep the Sci-Fi there but still form intense, real characters that you can relate with.
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Summary: Quo vadis?
Review: In the near future, according to this book, the United States and Mexico will be separated by the land of Opium, where illegal immigrants are surgically altered into zombies, to work the poppy fields for the world heroin supply. In Opium, the rich farmers are the only law. They can afford to have clones made of themselves... but why? As the clone of the Vampire of Dreamland, Matt's life is alternately disgustingly horrible and outrageously privileged. He grows to be 14 years old before he can unlock the secrets of Opium and his own existence.
As in the author's "The Eye, the Ear and the Arm," the children in "The House of the Scorpion" are met with obstacles that seem to be natural, if dismaying, outgrowths of today's headlines. The social ills that Farmer projects are all too believable. What new skills might today's youth need in order to survive tomorrow in a world whose values are a logical perversion of those we see today?
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Summary: The best book!
Review: This book is a great book. It is about a boy named Matt who's a clone and people treat him bad because he was harvested out of a cow. The book has a lot of twists and turns and like the book jacket said, the end of the book is something you never expected. Everybody should read this book even though it has some really gross parts. If you like books on science fiction and realistic fiction a lot this book is defenetly for you.
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Summary: what makes a human human?
Review: THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION is about good & evil, & what makes a human a human. Here evil people do good things, & good people do evil things, & when the two are mixed by a great story teller, they make great literature. Rebeccasreads highly recommends THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION as a memorable read & one of the best in today's science fiction.
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