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I feel a little bad for not liking The Giver. My main problem with it is that it feels like one of those books you have to read in sixth-grade English class because the teachers think the book has great things to say, but the students themselves just complain about it behind the teachers' backs. It feels like what adults think a children's book should be.
The Giver presents a utopian society where everything that creates difference (seasons, colors, birthdays...) has been banished. The main chara ...more
The Giver presents a utopian society where everything that creates difference (seasons, colors, birthdays...) has been banished. The main chara ...more
How have I never read this book? SOOOOOOOOO good.
Lowry creates a society where no one sees color or has feelings. Families are limited and created by a committee. Religion seems to be non-existent. Rules are the rage and no one really makes any actual choices. Only one man, the Receiver, has memories of the "old" and different world. He is soon to be Old, when he will be released (a euphemism for euthanized), and must pass on (or give) his memories to an heir.
Parents almost universally protest their children reading this in school. I think it' ...more
Parents almost universally protest their children reading this in school. I think it' ...more
Third time rereading I believe. This time with Eleanor at age 12. I have waited so long to read this with one of my kids. She loved it. After just the first chapter, she said she could tell this was going to be the best book she read this year 🙌🏻 I loved it as much as the first and second times I’ve read it. Funny I never thought about the ambiguous ending being ambiguous until a friend mentioned that the other day.
I loved Lois Lowry's books when I read them in the past. I guess I just thought this one had a little strange element to it...all futuristic and stuff that I found a bit odd and distancing.
Still....she is a great writer and I think the themes are important. It certainly makes sense why this book has won awards. ...more
Still....she is a great writer and I think the themes are important. It certainly makes sense why this book has won awards. ...more
Utopia comes at a price.
Oct 29, 2007
Heather Griffitts Clark
marked it as to-read
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Jan 04, 2011
Amy
marked it as to-read
