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Summary: Fascinating for young readers
Review: I was given the "Tripod's triology" for my twelth birthday twenty years ago and was fascinated by the story of English boy Will Parker's flight to the White Mountains to a band of free men who were amongst a few who had escaped the ruthless tyranny of the Tripod's and their ibfuence of 'the Cap' which was applied to people at the age of thirteen to control them. With cousin Henry and later companion Jean-Paul (known as Beanpole) the boys have several interesting adventures including the destruction of a Tripod. Will met one of the free men in his village who urged him ti escape.In the next book, City of Gold and Lead, Will and companion Fritz are chosen to enter the city to spy on The Masters, the aliens who control the tripods. Will learns much from his Master who thinks Will is just a normal slave, not a spy! There are many fascinating descriptions of the city that are too numerous to mention but Will escapes the city and Fritz is left behond. Fritz returns early in the third book, The Pool of Fire, with an incredible story of survival. Will learnt that in four years the Masters wil return and wipe out mankind with posinius air. The free men band together and the cities are penetrated and two of them destroyed. Will plays a part in the attack on the final city with Henry becoming a posthumous hero. Sadly, at the conclusion of the book, John Christopher reminds us of the nature of mankind. I found the books again while moving house and fell in love with this series all over again. After visiting Amazon, I discovered about the prequel, When the Tripods came, whoch I am yet to read. But the other three books are enthralling for younger readers.
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Summary: ........
Review: We have just read the white mountains by john christopher, and decided that this book was very good but also very very boring. every night we must of read atleast one chapter and it [stunk]!
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Summary: A book without words.
Review: The White Mountains, the first in the series... This is the first book I cannot remember actually reading words. Rather I experienced the words vividly. This is the book I read and realized that books do not need pictures. This is the book I read and understood you can paint landscapes and emotions with words.
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Summary: Still loving it 30 years later.
Review: When I was in Junior High I found these books in the library. They still stand out -- 30 years later -- as some of the most engaging novels I ever read. Got me started as a science fiction buff.
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Summary: When the Tripods Came/the White Mountains/the City of Gold a
Review: I read the book when I was 10(20 years ago) and now I found the books at Amazon, so I orderd it and read the books again. I could remember my feelings when I was 10, and I could feel them again while I was readind the books. Very nice science fiction, and very simbolic. The brain controll via tripods can be a symbol to religous fanatism which controll the mind of lots of peoples! Read it and enjoy it.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: In school we only read The White Mountains. I found out the other titles and wanted to go farther. I read them all when I was 10/11 and they were sort of scary but it just adds to the excitement and sense of danger. It makes you take a step back and wonder. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes science fiction.
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Summary: good starter series
Review: This series is a great start into the world of sci-fi/ fantasy. It is not hardcore such as the foundation series but it can get elementry students to think beyond the world in front of them. Possibly to simple for the middle school student, but it is great within the elementry setting. Personally, I read this book in the fifth grade and have remembered it ever since. It is neither devoted to pure sci-fi nor today's level of PCness by including equal numbers of females but provides a good solid entry into this genre of fiction by relying on a solid foundation. As a novel, it brings a persective that forces the reader to look beyond their own world. It takes a look at our own lives from a different perspective, something hard to bring accross to the typical elementry student. The series may have a level of triteness due to old stereotypes or literary tools, but with that it brings a new twist. I will always remember it, I enjoyed it and I learned a lot from it's pages.
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Summary: A Great Trilogy
Review: I read this trilogy as a kid and loved it! Glad to see it's still in print. One I will surely give to my kids in a few years.
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Summary: Plan 9 from Outer Space
Review: This series is often assigned to grade school students as their introduction to science fiction. I could never understand why. Educators either habitually underestimate the intelligence of their charges, or this series maintains its grip on the curriculum through brute inertia: it is chosen this year because it was chosen last year, and the year prior, and the year before that. This series rehashes the same "Plan 9 from Outer Space" malarkey that has been done to death in countless B movies and pulp novels. As a boys' adventure, it is little better than the Hardy brothers. And as introductory science fiction, it has precious little to engage the imaginations of girls, who, at last tally, accounted for roughly half the human race. Maybe this is why science fiction tends to be a disproportionately male genre. Do authors unconsciously post an "all girls keep out" sign above the door? However, the book's biggest flaw is its provincialism. By keeping to its evil-aliens convention, it surrenders its birthright. It doesn't open up the larger universe of possibilities to the young mind. Things like alien vistas, epic grandeur, cosmic perspective and awe of discovery go utterly begging. This series starves the imagination, and imagination is the central element separating science fiction from other genres. I am saddened when I think of the number of young readers who must have turned away from science fiction because they concluded that this was all it had to offer. Lest you think I am abusing this series because I am reading it as a jaded adult, I first read it decades ago for my own grade school reading assignment. While it introduced me to science fiction, it did nothing to interest me in the genre until I read Asimov's seminal Foundation series shortly thereafter on my own. It was this second instalment of science fiction that enthralled me. While it is somewhat unfair to compare White Mountains to one of the all-time classics of the field, it is even more unfair to allow it to stand as the genre's representative to young people. As an ambassador to the craft, this series is a poor emissary indeed. This series cannot be blamed for its simplistic dialogue or its one-dimensional characters. The author set out to write a boys' adventure. But it can and should be blamed for perpetuating the "fear of the unknown" paranoia and the evil-aliens tripe that already pollutes so much of speculative fiction. Confine the bug-eyed monsters to the bowels of Hollywood. Young minds should be opened to a universe of wonder, hope and discovery. Start them on any of the real masterpieces that exemplify the genre: just don't subject them to this.
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Summary: Weird Futuristic Book
Review: The book is about futuristic earth that is ruled by giant
metal monsters,called Tripods.these metal monsters take young
men when they reach a certain age and cap them with a metal plate that controls their minds. the book also goes on to tell about the journey of three young men,and the sights and people they encounter on their journey
south to a place they know as the White Mountains.Where they
hope to escape the giant metal Tripods,and the capping of their
heads with the metal plates that would control their minds.
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