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Post by Angie on Aug 10, 2006 18:32:16 GMT -5
This is probably my favorite or one of my favorites of all time. One week the librarian recommended two similar books, and this one was definitely better. "Feed", the other book, dealt with the future in the sense that our lives will one day be centered around computers. However, "The Giver" was much more captivating in that it showed a time when people have no control over their own lives at all and no knowledge of the past of the world or man kind. I would type up the description from the back of the book, but sadly, my copy got lost when my mom was dusting a few months ago.  |
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Post by scarecrow on Aug 10, 2006 22:31:39 GMT -5
That book was so great. I always thought it was so deep for being a book for teens, and the concept of one person suffering for the fate of others is so powerful there.
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Post by Angie on Aug 10, 2006 22:36:00 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a pretty unique book. I love it.
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Post by Donald Duck on Aug 10, 2006 22:44:20 GMT -5
I had to read it in Seventh grade of course bein the bookworm that I am I was the only one(other then the teacher) who truly loved the book.
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Post by Angie on Aug 10, 2006 22:47:01 GMT -5
How could your classmates not love it?
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Post by scarecrow on Aug 10, 2006 22:48:41 GMT -5
I know! It seems improbable that they wouldn't.
You know what this book reminds me of? That movie Pleasantville, with Tobey McGuire and Reese Witherspoon. The tones are different, but the basic principle of is sort of similar, don't you think?
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Post by Angie on Aug 10, 2006 22:49:55 GMT -5
Hey, yeah, you're right. I never really thought about that comparison, but there really are a lot of similarities.
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Post by Donald Duck on Aug 10, 2006 22:52:28 GMT -5
How could your classmates not love it? becuase they didn't like to read |
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Post by scarecrow on Aug 10, 2006 22:56:36 GMT -5
I hate it when people you know don't like to read. It makes me feel odd for doing something I like, and it happens a little too often.
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Post by Angie on Aug 10, 2006 22:58:57 GMT -5
Yeah, and they are always saying, "Why don't you just watch the movie?" Not every book in the world has been made into a movie, people.   And then I meet someone who reads twice as much as me, and I feel stupid. |
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Post by Donald Duck on Aug 11, 2006 12:17:35 GMT -5
lol i go threw the same thing sometimes
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Aug 31, 2006 8:05:15 GMT -5
Good book, this. It'd be so easily for everyone to forget...?
I kinda liked how the ending was never really resolved. There was a sequel, right? Was that any good? I mean it probably would be. Lowry did a great job world-building.
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Post by Angie on Aug 31, 2006 17:00:08 GMT -5
Oh, there's a sequel? Is it like a sequel sequel, or is it just a story in the same world? I want it!
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 1, 2006 11:19:36 GMT -5
Gathering Blue I believe it is called. I don't know how it's connected...
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Post by stickers! on Sept 2, 2006 11:39:06 GMT -5
Yeah, Gathering Blue. It's not quite as good, I think, and it's just set in the same world with maybe a mention or two about what happened in The Giver, or.. I forget, really. I read it first for some reason and a long time ago. Isn't there another one too, though?
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