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Jan 25, 2010
Chris
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It's easy to see why this book has won so many awards. Lowry has created a perfect dystopic (oxymoron intended) where everybody's like if planned out for them. There is no emotional pain. There is also no love, no compassion, no animals, no music and no color. But 12-year-old Jonas has never known anything different and has no reason to question his life in the "community." Then he's chosen to become the next Receiver of Memories. Think Dumbledore's pensive, except that all memories of the past,
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Jonas is a definitely a character that is eager for change, challenge, a completely new way of seeing the world once he gets a little taste of the things that once were and wants to find out what is out there in the world that he never new about before he accepted his Honor. It is indeed a book worth reading. It show how our uniqueness is beautiful and if we were all the same... everything and everyone pretty boring. The take the author took on this is definitely interesting.
Wow, what a great book! I read it in one day. Its a quick read and I couldn't put it down. I absolutely bawled throughout the last part of it. The sparse language and landscape of this world that Lowry has created somehow manages to draw a great deal of emotional response from the reader (at least it did from THIS reader!). Completely raw. I look forward to reading more in this series.
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