The reader is thrown into a perplexing and grim environment right off the bat. One by one we're introduced to five teenagers who have been brought into an experiment. Few details of their outside life are explained, a grim series of foster homes and orphanages for four of them and the last goes at l...
A modern classic. I read House of Stairs frequently as a child, and was happy to see this speculative novel from 1974 stands the test of time.That's because Sleator wisely keeps the "futuristic" science fiction touches to a minimum. There's a very '70s reference to air pollution, but it isn't pivota...
Lately, I've been re-reading books that I had read as a teen, and I'm happy to say that thirty years later, I still love this book. The amazing thing (to me) is that House of Stairs is just as current today as it was back then. It is set in an unspecified, futuristic setting, yet now its seems ver...
I received the sad news today that Bill Sleator died. Bill was a wonderful man and a great author. I loved turning kids on to his books. House of Stairs is one my favorites. I've read it several times and booktalked it often.
Fünf 16-jährige Waisen, die in einem dystopischen Amerika leben, finden sich ohne Vorwarnung in einem fantastisch anmutenden Gebäude wieder, das nur aus Treppen besteht, sie haben fliessendes Wasser und eine Grundmenge an Nahrung, die ihnen aber nur zugeteilt wird, wenn sie sich in einer bestimmten ...
Don't even try to tell me that J.J. Abrams didn't read this when he was young.I wish there were more contemporary books that took one interesting concept like this and packed it into 166 pages. There is good speculative fiction for teens, but this one is very concentrated and to the poitn.And I wish...
I missed this book when I was younger and picked it up after reading Laura Miller's New Yorker article about dystopian young adult fiction. It does what it does really well: striking, memorable images, driving action and characterization sufficient to the purpose at hand. It feels more like a shor...
A troubling book about an all-too-believable future. It was fascinating and horrifying to see how the five kids reacted to their imprisonment and the conditioning... and frightening to contemplate how I, myself, might have reacted.
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