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Summary: Don't read it if you don't have to
Review: Ok, here is a story about a town who doesn't have to worry about pain or change. You are assigned jobs and you have to apply for spouses and children but there are only 2 children, one boy and one girl, per household. And they have The Ceremonies, where at certain ages you get certain privliges. Anyways when this one kid named Jonas turns 12 he is "selected" as the Reciever of Memory and he meets the Giver where he gets all these memories. He expiriences stuff the rest of the town has no clue about.
Anyways I had to read this book for school and I didn't like it too much. It wasn't hard to understand - everything was explained clearly. But I mean come on, this book is so strange in a bad way. And when Jonas learned what being released was it made me want to put the book down and never touch it again. I can handle a lot of things but this book makes me sick! And I would not read this to younger children or those with a weak stomach. So to anyone who is thinking of buying this book, don't unless you have to for work/school.
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Summary: My class and I certainly did not like this book.
Review: Okay, my teacher assigned the whole class to read this book, The Giver, and the kids who were able to actually read the whole book, didn't like it. Maybe we are a class who just doesn't like science fiction books, or maybe the book wasn't that good. But a lot of people did enjoy the book, so it isn't the latter.The book was just too weird. Creative? Yes. Well- written? Yes. Boring? Heck yea' ! Jona's world is a world without color, a lot of technolodgy is missing, feeling, and just about everything good and bad of life is gone. Everyone is assigned a job. There are the birthing people, the doctors, etc. But Jona's job is the job of the highly respected Giver. The older Giver gives the kid feeling, and what it is like in the real world. Plus, the ending was so confusing. NO one understood it. There were too many questions not answered in the book. However, many people obviously loved the book, and some just didn't. If this sounds like your kind of book, buy the Giver. And if this review sounds like something you would write, then don't buy the book.
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Summary: Excellent, excellent book!
Review: On a scale of 1 to 5 stars, this book is definitely a 6! I bought this book on Friday, didn't began it until Saturday morning and had it finished by Saturday afternoon. It is excellent! Set in a Utopian-type village, where life is "perfect", one boy, Jonas, is selected to be the next "Receiver". He will learn about what life used to be like. He will discover all the joy and pain that accompanied people in the land of "Elsewhere". This book is incredible! I'd love to sit here and tell you every little detail, but hey, that would ruin an outstanding book for you! I absolutely loved it, and there couldn't have been a more appropriate ending, for those of you who said the ending wasn't so great. Read it! One of the best I have ever read, and I have read a lot of books! JANE EYRE is still my favorite, but then again, it is hard to compete with the classics. Lois Lowry does an excellent job, very different from her usual "Anastasia" books. This novel is superior! Well, stop listening to my praise of this book and go out and buy it!
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Summary: The Greatest Book I Ever Read!!!
Review: One day in school I had nothing to read so I looked around and I saw this book sitting on the shelf called The Giver. The name interested me so I picked it up and started reading it. I only read one paragraph and I knew I should've read it, so I did. This book inspired me so much I couldn't stop reading it. Every spare minute I had, I read the book. When I finished, I couldn't sleep that night very much. I kept thinking of the book, and I couldn't stop. So I read it again. I suggest this book to anyone, everyone. And once you have read it don't stop reading, keep going. Jonas, age 12, is a very brave young man, no one could ever replace him. He goes through love, death, starvation, pain, color, and even more that no one in this book has ever experienced. So go ahead and read this book, you won't regret it!!!
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Summary: great book
Review: One of my favorite parts is when they go elsewhere. It is a good book but it gets a little boring. I wish she would have had a longer ending.
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Summary: There should be a LAW for everyone to read this book.
Review: One of my friends convinced me to read this book. It's a little hard to understand at first, but it's definetly worth reading. With Jonas I felt his frustrations, and after awile lonliness. I loved Asher, Fiona, the Giver, Rosemary, Lily, the Ceremonies, the perfect world that turned out to be you-know-what, and I loved how little things like jackets that button down the back symbolize things like interdependence. My dad and I think that at the end, Jonas finally found the room with the grandparents, family, and Christmas tree. Kudos, Cheers, and a HUGE THANK-YOU to my new-found favorite author, LOIS LOWRY!!! :) by Pam, 11
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Summary: Really good, but really heavy
Review: One of my friends recommended this book to me after her dad told her to read it, and I am very glad that she did. I was a little skeptical at first, but then I decided I might as well read it, because if I didn't like it I could always stop. I was very surprised at the plot, because it was so interesting. Imagine living in a world where there was no poverty or pain, but there were no feelings, success, or emotions. It would be awful if your "parents" were really just two adults chosen to raise you. There is an element of suspense because the main character discovers something that he can't describe. That thing is color. It would be very weird if we had no color. It teaches you that everything has an opposite, so if you get rid of pain, you'll get rid of pleasure. I don't mean to say that the whole book has moral lessons, but it does teach you things. I'm not saying that this is light reading, because it is the exact opposite. You should get this book, but I would recommend that you take breaks from reading it (although it is very hard to put down) because if you don't you'll get overwhelmed. It is still a good book, though.
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Summary: Absoultely Spellbinding
Review: One of the few books that I can ever read past the first few chapters, Lois Lowry's "The Giver" has easily made its way into one of my favorite books. It's amazing how many only 170 some odd pages can work on so many levels- emotionally, socially, politically- and still pull it off. Lowry perfectly brings a coming-of-age boy (Jonas) forced to live in a seemingly "perfect" community into receiving the truth about the past, a past where pain existed, a past where feelings existed. Jonas' own naivete towards the world is the most interesting part of the book; watching him come to his own revelations about the very society he lives in, and the pure simplicity of his convictions: "But we SHOULD have choices!" Lowry leaves a lot of the book open for you to fill in the structure- she never really explains the whole concept of why people moved to "Sameness," and I really think that's for the best. I think it gives the message that maybe we really aren't made for perfection- because, perhaps, beauty comes in imperfection. A classic.
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Summary: What a book!
Review: One of the most unique books I ever read, The Giver really shows you how important feelings and memories really are; what humans would be without them. Such a book isn't writtin every day!
This is one of those books you could read over and over and never get bored. I strongely recommend this book.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book!
Review: Our class read "The Giver" as our class novel. At first, I didn't think I would like the book because I'm not really into science fiction. But once we started reading it, I kept looking ahead to see what was going to happen next. Our teacher always kept us in suspense by stopping at a really good part. I would recommend this book to anyone!
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