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Summary: the giver the book i read
Review: this book really intrested me,but it was not the best thing i have ever read .it could be one of them .i liked the meaning of the book .that it was showing that we should be happy of how we live in freedom and they lived were they had there whole life planned out for them.so i am glad that i decide to read that book .so overall it was a pretty good book.
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Summary: The Best Book since Alice and Wonderland
Review: This book is really good because it takes you into a whole new world like alice and wonderland. Well this book is a really creepy book because its a distopia world because they think they're living the perfect life when they're really living a sick life and take away the true colors of life by taking pain and pleasure from life. I'm sure if you read it you'll love it!
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Summary: Amazingly Vivid
Review: Can you imagine a place where the people that live there have no memories of the past, no emotions, no colors, and none of earth's wonders? The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in this kind of a community. Jonas is an 11-year-old boy that is about to turn twelve. He is soon to receive a job assignment because at that age one is considered an adult. At the birthday ceremony Jonas is chosen to be the only holder of memories in the community. Once Jonas receives a few, he realizes that his community isn't doing anything regularly. What will Jonas do to help his community see the error of its ways?
The Giver is a truly unique book because it tells about a different kind of lifestyle in a strange community. The author has characters who mention and follow rules such as the ones that say only one group of people can chose the job assignments for young adults, and that is quite different from our government, so that makes it interesting. You should read this book because it is very realistic and it has true emotions attached to the characters. When Jonas sees the way his community is living, his emotions of sadness, anger, and regret are extremely vivid. This book might appeal to you because it is an intriguing story that tells about a turning point in a young man's life. In the story Jonas is turning twelve and experiencing "stirrings." Also he becomes an adult in this book, and he has an extra responsibility. Etudier un d'ordinaire livre et experience joie!
(Read a book and experience joy!) This one certainly is a keeper.
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Summary: So Sad!
Review: This was one of the first books I got that I really disliked. My mom got it for me when I was about 11 or 12 and I got all the way to the "baby part" (which I'm sure you all have heard about...uck!) I had to put it down because I was crying to hard. I decided to finish it because I really liked the main character and still wanted to know the ending but to this day I still don't know how it ended because that one chapter was haunting me and I could get it out of my head. Anytime me and my friends talk about books in general I always say how I couldn't stand this one.
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Summary: Pompous and not convincing
Review: This seems to be a rather heavy-handed polemic, a _1984_ for kids, though frankly I think the kids should skip straight to _1984_. Lowry's manufactured rightspeak is awkward, the dark surprises hidden beneath the placid surface of the supposedly Utopian society are not at all surprising, and, worst of all, her world is just not believable. Yes, it's fictional, and probably even allegorical. It still should be possible, or at least believable, in order to be chilling and convincing. A society that has learned to control the climate, iron the hills out of the landscape, prevent anyone from seeing colors, etc.? Give me a break. To say nothing of the fact that apparently many citizens are aware of the "secrets" underlying their paradise--the old, defective, or just plain extra are euthanized, etc.--but yet no one before Jonas has tried to blow the top off the system for centuries. And the old "they had perfect lives, but yet they did not feel LOVE" line is trotted out in all its triteness. And while I understand that Lowry was trying to depict a society startlingly different from our own, it's a little sinister that this supposedly-perfect-and-actually-EVIL society is notable for having women in positions of responsibility and power, and allowing men to work in childcare (though I have to note that this was a minor detail, and not the major thrust of the book at all). Also, I find Rifkin's reading extremely annoying. Surely they could have found someone with a perfect, bland, middle American non-accent to narrate the story of the perfect bland society. He makes the kids sound whiny and the Giver sound like he's been chain smoking for the past 40 years. The background music is also cheesy. I gave 2 stars rather than 1 as the writing wasn't completely bad and I appreciate her inventiveness and attempt to spread warnings about conformity. However, I hate to see classrooms using this dumbed-down dystopian tale; there's enough REAL literature out there that teenagers should be at least trying to read _1984_ or _Brave New World_ instead.
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Summary: The Giver review
Review: The novel, The Giver, is full of excitement! In my opionion it is the best book in the world. This would be the book that I would read again if I had to. This science fiction novel was very well written. I absolutly loved this book, and I wish that I could find a book that I enjoyed as much as I did this novel!
( I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. )
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Summary: I was a kid when I read this
Review: I enjoyed every part of it. It's worth buying
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: This is a really thought provoking book, and ventures into a realm that nearly everybody, secretly wants. It is very high-detailed, yet the plot reads extremely quickly. There is no fluff. The ending really made me think, and after I read it, I felt a renewed sense of appreciation for the world we live in. Read this. You won't regret it.
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Summary: odd, disturbing, beautiful
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry combines aspects of fantasy, science fiction, and mystery genres. While clearly a dystopian novel after the pattern of 1984 (and, I would assume, A Brave New World, but I haven't read that yet), this book also incorporates such fantasy/philosophical concepts as collective memory.
Although much of what is happening is clearly explained later on, readers who like a little ambiguity will enjoy trying to interpret what Jonas means when he describes things from a worldview very different from our own.
The ending leaves the reader confused and deflated, belonging more to the fantasy/philosophical parts of the book than the science fiction parts. While Jonas seems happy in the end, one cannot figure out where he is, what will happen to him, or even if he's still alive. Personally, I wanted something more concrete.
However, it is a beautiful, enthralling, and tasteful tale for the fairly mature reader willing to contemplate the nature of love, sexuality (this part is mild), infanticide, suicide, history, paternalistic government, etc., without the "resistance is futile" hopelessness of adult dystopian novels.
I loved it at 12. I love it at 18.
Can anyone tell me if the legend of the sanitation worker told by the children of Jonas' community is an allusion to Anthem by Ayn Rand?
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Summary: Brave New World a la sixth grade
Review: If Huxley or Orwell are a little much for the 11-year-olds of the world (and they probably are), The Giver is an allegory worthy of their spirit but simplified for a younger audience. My daughter loved it, and I read it upon her recommendation. I found it profound. It is an excellent introduction to allegorical fiction that adresses important social and philosophical issues.
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