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Summary: Run and hide now, we fight soon
Review: I read The White Mountains in the sixth grade, after already reading the City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire. I became acquainted with the series while reading the comic strip adaption in Boys Life magazine in the late eighties.This is an outstanding series, intended for young readers but it will still entertain the older readers as well. Young Will Parker leaves his English village with his cousin Henry and flee to the White Mountains. They seek to escape the Tripods, giant machines who control the human race through mind controlling Caps. In France, they hook up with Beanpole, a French boy. This is an excellent story about resisting tyranny, and filled with great adventure and an easy plot to follow. Young readers will love it.
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Summary: An Old Book Turned Good
Review: The book, The White Mountains, by John Christopher, had some very good discription in it. Although the book could get boring at sometimes, there was always one way or another to get the reader hooked in again. The boys in the story find some very interesting ways of finding adventure. If I had to recommend this book to any type of person, I would recommend it to anyone with a sence of adventure in their lives. If they enjoy suspence and confusion, they would love this book. The age group that I would recommend this book is to anyone from 9 to age 13. I am 13 now and have found that there were times in the book that I was getting somewhat turned away from the book since I was assigned to read it and since there were no girls in the book getting into "REAL ADVENTURE." I would mostly recommend this book to boys/guys/males, because of the feeling of fighting, power, trouble, and wilderness. But then again, this is just my opinion, read the book for yourself to find out what you think.
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Summary: Dead white mountains
Review: Fun Fact: "The White Mountains" was turned into a regular comic strip and published in the Boy Scout magazine, "Boy's Life" in the early 1980s. One of the earliest futuristic dystopian tales for children, the story is a harrowing one. The race of man has been conquered by beings known only as the Tripods. These gigantic three footed structures rule the earth, controlling the minds of the human race through "capping". Once capped, a person is exactly the same, but bound to the will of the Tripod masters. Will, his cousin Henry, and a French boy named Jean-Paul (but translated into the boys' speech as Beanpole), set out to find a place where men live free, without the caps or tripods. The white mountains. Now, in my description of this story I've relied on a the old fashioned method of speech that speaks about "the race of man" and "where men live free". Why not the race of people... or where people live free? Well, to be frank, this book is a bit lacking in the woman department. Originally published in 1967, it is a victim of its times. Women exist here as mothers and as docile servants of the Tripods. In the story, those humans who have been capped sometimes respond violently to the process. As a result, they end up insane and "Vagrants". Usually this happens to people who are strong of will and resist the capping. The author himself notes that, "it happened occasionally with girls, although much more rarely". Sorry ladies. Resistance must be a manly trait. As for the girl Will befriends halfway through the book, she is described as having a "soothing gentleness" and is considered a remarkable woman for it. This concept of women is more than a little backwards. Even the photograph of a woman Will finds in an abandoned Paris is imagined in his head as playing the piano (as accomplished women would be wont to do). The book is now being considered, I might add, by Steven Spielberg (unsurprisingly when you consider that the man is not usually prone to strong female characters in his own films). Aside from the old-fashioned nature of the XX chromosomed, the book has many fine features. There's a delightful tension running between the three boys as they make their journey. Will often finds himself jealous of the camaraderie between his two companions, and will lapse into spitefulness as a result. The story is well thought out and the dramatic high points very invigorating. The ending, unfortunately, is very sudden. Not to ruin it for you, but in a sudden "TA-DAH!" like sequence, the boys find themselves walking towards the white mountains one moment and suddenly IN the mountains the next. The abrupt ending feels like nothing so much as an indiscriminate stopping point created with the sole purpose of leading the viewer towards the sequel. And a map would have been a nice addition to the story. A map that showed the boys' progress from England to the mountains past France. I was very attached to this book while reading it, and in spite of all the problems I have with it, I recommend it highly. Just bear in mind that unlike some of the other fantasy books of this ilk, "The While Mountains" has aged a little more poorly than its fellows.
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Summary: A well written creative story for all ages, November 8, 2001
Review: I first read the white mountains over twelve years ago as a child. I have read it countless times since and it reamains a favorite. The story of Will, a teenage boy, as he travels to the far reaches of earth in pusuit of a freedom unknown to fellow mankind. Through his travels Will faces many challenges and adventures that keep the reader at the edge of their seat. The combination of amazing character creation and developement with adventure, humor, and suspence makes this book a must read.
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Summary: This book is full of adventure,action, and originality
Review: The Reason I like this book is that first I love to read books that don't talk about one subject for half the book. I like to read books that keep on going like this one. It does, though, talk to little about things, but I get really bored with a lot. I like to read also that this book is just full of adventure and adventure books are by far the best. The book is very origianal too. It's is a very unique book by far because firstly the time setting. It takes place in the future, but it seems like the past. It seems like the past because they have no technology because the unique atagonists destroyed them. The atagonists are like robotic, three legged stools and that is very creative.
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Summary: A Great Science Fiction Book
Review: When I read The White Mountains I had no clue that it would turn out as good as it did. The suspense was so extreme at times I couldn't put the book down! All the mysteries of the Tripods had you on the edge of your seat. I felt like I was actually there watching the story happen. The Tripods are Capping people around the world, but the Tripods do not travel into mountains, so the men living in the White Mountains in Switzerland won't have their heads controlled by the Tripods. Will Parker and his friend, Henry, set out for the White Mountains from their small town of Wherton. On their journey they encounter many obstacles. They don't know who to trust, because anyone can be Capped and obeying the Tripods. If they get caught, they will be Capped and their journey will be over. Will they make it to the White Mountains safely? Read the book to find out! This book is a great choice for the person who likes a suspenseful adventure book. When you finish The White Mountains, you will want to get The City of Gold and Lead, which is the next book in the series, right away and figure out what happens next. You will LOVE The White Mountains! This book deserves a great rating. For all of its suspense and how good the adventure was, I think this book deserves a 4.5 star rating. So remember, one of the best Science Fiction books that you can choose is The White Mountains by John Christopher.
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Summary: a book you shouldn't miss reading
Review: I thought this book was very interesting and exiting. It begins out in the future but it seems more like you're in the past with a teenager named Will. He has a cousin named Henry who he despises. One day a [fake] vagrant comes to town and meets will a few days later. He informs will that the tripods [machines that keep men docile with mesh/metal caps] are bad and asks will if he is welling to make a journey to a land where their are no tripods! Will accepts the challenge so the next day he sets off. Henry sees him leave and joins will. They go to a port named Rummy. They get across the river and keep going along the way they meet a kid their own age named Jean Paul. They pronounce beanpole. They keep going and encounter many challenges. Read this book if you what to find out what happens?
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Summary: An outstanding journey into a different world
Review: This book was first read to me by Mrs. Marion Congdon during fourth grade. This was the first book I purchased from Scholastic readers and eagerly awaited the next installment. I will eagerly await the time when my son will be able to enjoy the series as I did. A must purchase for young boys eager to explore other worlds and put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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Summary: OK
Review: This story was okay. It was kind of confusing, but it was pretty good. Peace out dawg!
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Summary: More frightening than you think
Review: A masterpiece --I thoroughly enjoyed this book when I was nine and now my eight year-old son is beginning to explore it. Masterful use of setting, dialogue, and rich visual descriptions that at first suggest a quiet English village of the seventeenth, perhaps the early eighteenth century. Then along come the clues: ruined metal buildings, mysterious half-corroded signs, whispered gossip of the craftsmanship of "Men in the Days Before The Tripods." Then the hero's cousin (and best friend) is happily "capped" in a rite of adulthood by a weird and mysterious leviathan straight out of an H.G. Wells novel, and the broader scope pulls into focus. Christopher's trilogy is exciting, suspenseful, and throws around a lot of mysteries that any preteen reader should be able to reason out without too much difficulty. There is some innocent romance, but no sex. The violence is mostly implied, though there is a disturbing "field surgery" scene towards the end, as well as a nail-biting hunt and a decisive final battle. The heros' actual arrival in the Swiss Alps is somewhat anticlimactic --it sheds no new light on Earth's predicament, but merely brings Will, Henry, and "Beanpole's" quest to an end. Best moments include the boys' sojourn through "The City of the Ancients," the devastated ruins of what was once Paris. The descriptions from Will's insular point-of-view are a delight to puzzle out, particularly when the boys encounter ordinary everyday twentieth-century objects and try to figure out what they are (i.e., "Shmand-Fair"). The discovery of a cache of explosive "iron eggs" in a subway tunnel paints a broader scope of the initial invasion: it appears there was at least some active resistance before the aliens worked out a way to assume control of human minds. Buy this for your 8-9-10-11 year-old boy and have some fun reading it to one another. And don't neglect either of the sequels: they bring the story full circle!
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