The White Mountains (The Tripods, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Nov 12, 2009 Rebekah rated it really liked it

Shelves: childhood-reads-incomplete-list, fantasy-scifi, perfect-imperfect-world, permanent-collection-keeper, 4-star-reads

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The White Mountains just may have been my first introduction to Science Fiction. It was required reading for my sixth grade class. They had over thirty copies of this book in the school library (and only one each of the next two- can you imagine the scramble and fights that caused).

Will lives in a retro- future where human’s have only basic technology (his father’s prized possession is a watch that has to be wound), Will is about to enter adulthood- a time that is marked by Capping Day- A day w ...more

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Feb 20, 2020 Susan rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction, dystopia, series

This was fine, but not so wonderful that I care at all about reading the other books in the trilogy. It was first published in 1967, and that shows. The plot and story-line actually still hold up fine. But there's something about the writing style of many early science fiction writers that begins to feel repetitive: it's a first-person narrative, so we know from the start that the protagonist will survive somehow; and it has a bit of the feel of a travelogue. The write-up sounds good, but it's n ...more

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Jan 03, 2012 Deedee marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: srcs-spring-members-choices, young-adult-fantasy-and-sf, series-2nd, 0t-dystopia, young-adult, year-1967, rws-dystopia, title-color-red-white-blue, sf-aliens

Lexile 890L
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7.0

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Jun 17, 2009 Tricia Schneider rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

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Aug 20, 2009 Vesra (When She Reads) added it · review of another edition

Shelves: action-adventure, series, e-book, w, juvenile, young-adult, author-c, fiction, science-fiction-fantasy, pc-100-199

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Oct 25, 2009 Angela Randall rated it really liked it

Shelves: essential-reading-for-teens, first-book-in-great-series, 20th-century, we-own, fiction, 1960-1969, fantasy, ange-recommends, sci-fi, dystopian

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