The Giver

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Summary: What can i say?
Review: theres really not much to say. i didnt want to read the book because the cover was wierd looking. i was forced to read it 2 years ago for school, and i absolutly loved it. just read this book you wont regret it, it really makes you think.......

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Summary: The Greatest Book.
Review: This a book everyone has to read. Young, and Old If your looking for a good book read this one. It's a book of supposely might happen in the future and it dosn't look to good, all I can say is that it's very organized.

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Summary: Hmmm . . .
Review: This a book that really makes you think. It is made to provoke feelings and to warn. Jonas (the main character) lives in a "perfect" world, where there is no violence, hate, or fear. But to counter that, there is no love, joy, or even anger! All desicions are made for you. You don't have your own children, you don't pick your spouse, and when you have outlived your usefullness, you die!...People are given the job of having children (sexual immorality!) and after three years, they work in slave labor. Not my idea of of a perfect world at all!
Jonas is a 12, and he aprenticed to the Receiver, who is called the Giver afterward. He is given memories of joy, of sorrow, of war, and of pain. He can see color, and he experiences love for the first time. He grows to hate having no color, the monotony. And he decides to try to change it all--at the risk of himself.
This is a book for a person who wants to think for a long time, and deeply. If you like thriller novels, you won't like this. Even if LIKE thinking, you won't like this. But you have to give it a chance.

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Summary: This is a great book
Review: This a great book full of feeling and emotian. The charectors are well described and the plot is really good. The only part that's differant is its bizzare ending. This is a well written book and it's a great book for young adults

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Summary: "The Giver" A truly amazing story
Review: This amazing story is about a boy who lives in a town with no worries, pain ,or guilt. Every year all of the kids who were twelve meet in a place called The Anex room to discuss their careers in life. The elders of the town get to decide which career goes to whom. Jonus the last to be called, hade been given the job of the receiver of memories. The job of the receiver is to take all of the horrible memories of the town untill the day of his near death, then he must give the memorries to anouther. If you want to read a book with hope love and excitement this is the book for you .This wounderful story is one of my favorite books that I have ever read. Ihope you will enjoy it too.

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Summary: Review on The Giver
Review: This book "The Giver" was a weird but interesting book. It was mainly about a boy named Jonas who lives in a society with no feelings, inequalities, hunger, and pain. Each member of the society is given their future occupation at the age of only twelve. Jonas is very scared for his Ceremony of Twelve. He ends up becoming the reciever of memory. By working with the Giver Jonas realizes the truth about his society and what everyone is missing out on. The ending of The Giver is very interesting, it was not what i had expected to happen. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, so just read the book to find out!!

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Summary: "The Giver" is the best science-fiction book ever
Review: This book "The Giver" is the strangest yet most interresting story I have ever read.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book absolutely blew me away! Lowry's portrayal of this futuristic utopia is both inviting and chilling. At the beginning, the easy simplicity of the life led by Jonas and his family seems like the perfect answer to our chaotic lifestyle. But as Jonas begins to receive the world's memories and to discover that his world is not perfect, "utopia" becomes eerie and even horrifying, as such secrets as the "release" of children are revealed. The ending, although somewhat predictable, is well suited to the story, and is the only feasable way that Jonas can continue to exist with the knowledge that he possess. Amazingly well written and a wonderful story!

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Summary: It's so good I give it more then five stars.
Review: This book at first had a city in it like any other city but when you find out all the things the city is missing your hart brakes in two!The end I must of cried a puddle of tears cause it touched my hart so deply.

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Summary: Good social expository with bitter feminist aftertaste
Review: This book attempted to provide a narrative through a hypothetical future society( somewhat like Russian Commumism ) where many fundamental human modes of perception are abandoned in order to maintain "sameness" and alleviation of life's emotional and physical pain. This future society hinges on the "recievers" who bear the burden of humanities past and provide eithical consult to the societies crafters to maintain equilibrium. The main character is elected at age 12 to become the communities new "reciever", and in turn learns the horrible truths of man's raw existence. Although well written despite the intended audience, the book was enlightening and a good read. A rather annoying aspect was the littering of feminist thought that seemed rather artificial and contradictory to the other ideas presented. For instance the main characters father is a "nurturer", or someone whos job it is to care for infants( note here that instead of breastmilk, the babies are fed *formula* ). The mother, however, maintains a lucrative job at the "ministry of justice and law". Also a obnioxiously repeated theme is the "high dishonor" that birthmothers are given in this society( the babies are disowned from the mother after birth and reassigned to the community "pairs" ). I feel like these things were stuck into an otherwise interesting book as part of the authors more personal agenda. Reccomended to all people with a stomach for 60s feminism.