The Giver
Format: kindle
ASIN: 8309278
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Pages no: 180
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Read For School,
Middle Grade,
Dystopia,
Fiction
After all the praise, I expected more. No doubt that it's a good teen/pre-teen book but it didn't move me as deeply as I wanted it to.As it's a series I'll probably continue just to see if it goes to more interesting places.
Lois Lowry's The Giver predates the current dystopian trend, and brings to mind the world of Camazotz in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy. Jonah is about to turn 12, which in his society of matched couples who apply for -- and receive -- two children each, a boy and a girl, means he will be assigned...
I'm at 10% on this one so far on my kindle. My issue with this book so far is that it would appear to me that Lois Lowry borrows to much of her environment from already existing material. This books reads very similar to combination between Logan's Run and 1984.I was going to up my review to a four ...
Can you imagine a world with no sickness, hunger or poverty? What if, in this world there were also no choices or real emotional depth? Where everything is the same. Jonas lives in this world. Everything is chosen for you. Your clothes, your job even your spouse and children. Jonas has grown up in t...
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