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Summary: A well-meaning book, a slowly-moving plot
Review: I read this book as an assignment in my English class. I think it's certainly full of revealing insights about society and what's supposed to be for the benefit of society. On th other hand: Does a story have to be so stiff, so boring and so obvious in what it is meant to say?
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Summary: Creative book for young minds to see what free life we live
Review: This book was the book to get me to start reading. Once I got past the... different cover, I realized what a beautiful book it truly was. The book itself told of a life of a young boy that loved his life but didn't know what he was missing... or what people were hiding from him. When I had finished reading the book I thought -What a wonderful ending- because that's just what it was. Some authors leave details out, leave strings hanging, not tied into a knot, but Lois Lowery tied them tight with a shiny red ribbon. Highly reccommended for people just starting to read
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Summary: It will freak you out ,but then you are hooked!!!!!!!!
Review: It starts out strange and ends even stranger. I read this book for school and did those comp. ?'s to go with it which made it much more understandable. It makes you think about this "community" and the freakish lives of the characters and how much our society differs from it. The cover is a real turn off but the saying for once in mu life was true. Read this book!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Lois Lowry Is Quite A Great Writer
Review: I loved this book. It was marvelous with great text and characters. You get swept up in the story about Jonas and Gabriel and The Giver. It's very powerful and to me it is one of the best books ever written. You've probably heard all about it. And everyone should at some point get a taste of this book. It's one of the best. Lois Lowry is a great author with powerful writing for I also enjoyed Number The Stars!
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: I think that The Giver is a great book for young adults. There is imagination that inspired me appreciating my life in reality. Although I don't really like the ending, I do enjoy the atmosphere that Lois Lowry created throughout the book. The first impression I have for this book is "incomprehensible". But the more I tried to experience how Jonas feels, the more I enjoyed the new world that was so unfamiliar to me. However, I think that the imaginary world created by Lois Lowry is probably the "ideal" that we human beings wish to have. In the mean time, people do not actually think of the consequences while they're trying to better our society. Learning from the history, communism was the "ideal" for most of the people in the 19th century world-full of disciplines, rules, and regulations. The government (the House of the Old) has the greatest power controlling over people and everyone is divided into assigned units and groups. People are not allowed to read in order to prevent people from learning from the past. There is no individual because they dare to develop human weaknesses-emotions. People's futures are decided by the elders in the community rather by self-willingness. Everyone lives in the same living entity instead of being unique and enjoying the freedom. Although all the arrangements probably would be the best way for all people-without pain, sadness, and worries, I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be the best way for happy lives.
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Summary: Sadly Predictable... yet Strangely Endearing
Review: The Giver is a well thought out book with excellent descriptions, realistic characters, and a strong moral, and yet it follows a depressingly familiar path worn to a rut by Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and George Orwell. Lowry obviously thought very hard about what would be the most realistic and assessable utopian society and wrote a tight and believable description of it which gives the reader a strong, but not overbearing, feeling that this indeed could happen. Sadly enough, Lowry's ingenuity and superb writing skill are overshadowed by the superlative predictability of the plot. The triteness of yet one more anti-utopian society will probably be lost on reader in the intended age bracket, but it would be hard to cover the fact that Jonas takes a while to make revelations anticipated by his audience, and his readers will be ahead of him throughout most of the book.
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Summary: A vision of negative utopia worth looking into
Review: Lois Lowry's The Giver is perhaps one of the most provocative children's books ever written. Ms. Lowry's book is undoubtedly destined to become a "masterpiece" of the speculative fiction and negative utopian genres. Her skill as a writer is evident in the novel's superb structure. She slowly reveals details of the society in a natural and subtle manner; yet she has concealed some of the details so successfully that they come as a complete surprise to the reader. Through this slow method of revelation, Ms. Lowry transforms an at-first-glance utopian society into a horrible and repressive negative utopia. Ms. Lowry's vision is extremely prophetic. The society she depicts is staggeringly realistic and hits close to home. Indeed, such a society could easily evolve from current trends for political correctness and oversensitivity. Thus, her society is almost frightening in its accuracy. Overall, The Giver is masterfully crafted, as evidenced by its Newberry Award. It is most certainly worth a read, even if you are not a young adult. In fact, an older person should be able to appreciate it just as much, although an older and more experienced eye should be able to pick out minor flaws in character and idea development. The only thing that detracts from the book is its sloppily constructed ending. Abrupt and unfulfilling, it leaves too many questions unanswered and certainly disappointed me. But give the book a try if you haven't already. It's worth it.
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Summary: boring book
Review: Im 15,and i tought that this book takes to much time to get to the punch line and what about that ending, come on, what happens does he die does he get to an other place is he hallucinating i dont know it was a very boring book and i do not recommend it to people my age they will find it boring trust me i read it.
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Summary: An Incredible glimpse into a new world
Review: I had read this book when I was younger, but was reassigned to read it for a class assignment. The first time I read it, the futuristic awe of the book passed me by, but after reading it again I've realized what a great vision into the future and inspiring novel it is. If you liked this book, you should also read the book 1984.
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Summary: I am right now reading THE GIVER for school
Review: For 6th grade english class I have to read THE GIVER. I am only up to chapter 2 so I'm not that familiar with the book. I have a question for Lois Lowry. Why did you choose to capitilize PILOT and SEVENS, EIGHTS, ELEVENS... and so on? That is really wierd. I don't get it. So far I like the book but there is a lot of hard vocabulary. I hope people like me will read THE GIVER and enjoy it as much as I do.
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