The Chrysalids

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Summary: Not a criticism of religion!
Review: I, like most other reviewers of this book, read this book for my grade ten English class. I did not dislike the book; it was very well written and once I started reading, I found that I could not stop. However, both the ending and the characterization left much to be desired. But my real criticism was not with the book, but with the way people interpret it. Many students in my class believed it said that religion, especially Christianity, was wrong. I could not disagree more. What the people of Waknuk practiced was not Christianity, but something that was almost a cult. When the Fringes man talks to David about the true image, I get the impression that Wyndham was aware of this as well. And on a lighter note: Is my class the only one that found the romance between David and Rosalind rather disgusting? Come on, they're COUSINS!!

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Summary: Quit your whinning
Review: Okay look, I'm a grade 10 student at T A Blakelock and I read the crysalids for an english assignment. I love this book, It was entertaining and suspencefull. and for the reviewers who wrote it was confusing and pointless. How dumb are you? your reading it for a project in HIGHSCHOOL and You think this book is confusing?!!. I would like to show you some stuff we read over here. It may enlarge that puny brain of yours!.

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Summary: Wonderful and captivating
Review: I can't believe that some people actually disliked this book. It's by far the best book I've read for over a year(apart from Day of the Triffids which I subsequently read because of my new fascination with John Wyndham). It seems that school children who've been forced to read it dislike it. But I would definitely recommend it to adult readers. It's not often that a book is so gripping that you become part of the story.

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Summary: Too bad I can't rate it 0 stars
Review: This book is PATHETIC! I read it only because it was our english novel. I am in yr10, and I love sci-fi, and fantasy, but this book was a failure. The characters are dull and dry, without life, and are unable to rouse our sympathy(or interest). The storyline is patched and unbelievable, and the ending suggests to me that Wyndham thought "Oh, I'd better finish this in the next 10 seconds, here's a good band-aid solution..." Do something better with your time, like they said on Billy Madison, "You'll be dumder for reading it."

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Summary: dw
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Summary: I HATE THIS BOOK
Review: As said by one other reviewer, the only reason I read this crappy book is that I was forced to by my Science teacher. I had to write many summaries and a plot line on this book which is worth (in my opinion)-----ZERO DOLLARS!!! If you want to read this book, something is wrong with your head. If you actually think that those other reviewers gave it five stars, they probably forgot to change the amount of stars. DON'T READ IT--YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Master piece
Review: Wyndham write on psychological stages that mankind may reach

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Summary: One of Wyndham's best
Review: How do you survive in a repressive world if you are different -- especially if your difference is telepathy, and the society around you totally lacks imagination. That is the problem that David and similarly gifted children of his generation must face in the post-apocalyptic, rural, restrictively religious society they inhabit, in which deviance is apt to be punished with death. Wyndham effectively conveys what it's like to carry a secret, the solace of finding others like yourself, and, in this case, the suspensefully described dangers of exposure. The telepathic interchanges are evocative and believable, and the claustrophobia of circumstances from which it's impossible to see a way out becomes tighter and tighter until the final rescue. A wonderful allegory of freedom and individuality packaged in good writing. Ranks among Wyndham's best novels along with The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, and The Kraken Wakes.

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Summary: I never knew fantasy could be so captivating!
Review: Presently I am in grade seven and was given a book critique to write. Myself, I am a science-fiction hater and fantasy hater. My brother recommended this book to me. I reluctantly began. Once I began I could not stop. Simply a masterpiece!

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Summary: Boring, Boring, Boring
Review: The only way to read this book is with the Coles Notes, the other way is long and dry. The book doesn't make any sense, why is it so stupid? Don't read this book unless you are forced to by the School Board. The book should be cut down to 25 pages, and could have been if the author didn't use so much detail, and unimportant facts.