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The Giver
Award-winning juvenile fiction which discusses the weighty matters of choice, infanticide, and geriatricide in a way that ultimately leaves the reader to decide in an unbiased fashion. In a utopian culture of the future that maintains a base-line standard of life through self-suppresion and communistic assignment of duties and euthenasia of non-contributing members, young Jonas receives the very rare and enigmatic duty of Receiver. With this new role come rules of a very different nature than the rest of the culture. Ultimately this permits bypass of the emotional blindness and the revelation of the true nature and history of the culture.
Lois Lowryr
5 Stars
HIGHLY Recommended
The Giver has one of those “Radio Flyer” endings that leaves you wondering what really happened. This struck me as really unusual for a book of Newbury Award fame, reserved for juvenile fiction. Although written for a juvenile audience, the book really is adult in scope and thinking. Choice and consequence factor into this heavily, as Jonas experiences the regimental lifestyle of the culture only to discover later consequence inevitably follows choice, although the founders may have sought to separate the morality from the consequences.
Ultimately, The Giver is a lesson in dystopia: when someone’s vision of utopia reveals itself as broken for everyone made to bear it.
Awards
- The 1994 Newbery Medal
- The 1996 William Allen White Award [11]
- American Library Association listings for “Best Book for Young Adults”, “Notable Children’s Book,” and “100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.”
- A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book
- Winner of the Regina Medal
- Booklist Editors’ Choice
- A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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Whitley Strieber, self-proclaimed alien abductee, here writes interdimensional fiction of planetary invasion amongst parallel worlds. A writer possessed by his words finds his writing actuating an alternate earth in which a planetary invasion is taking place only to realize his earth is also in jeopardy. Curious concepts which leave too many incongruities and unanswered questions to be recommended.
Award-winning juvenile fiction which discusses the weighty matters of choice, infanticide, and geriatricide in a way that ultimately leaves the reader to decide in an unbiased fashion. In a utopian culture of the future that maintains a base-line standard of life through self-suppresion and communistic assignment of duties and euthenasia of non-contributing members, young Jonas receives the very rare and enigmatic duty of Receiver. With this new role come rules of a very different nature than the rest of the culture. Ultimately this permits bypass of the emotional blindness and the revelation of the true nature and history of the culture.
Where James Rollins makes you grit your teeth as your favorite characters are seemingly killed only to pop up safe at the end, Iain Banks pushes your favorite characters through gut-wrenching punishment and still has the sadism to kill ‘em all at the end anyway. Don’t worry, it’s the ride that counts (or at least that’s what I keep telling myself).
Few books touch me so indelibly. Rarer still are true stories that leave a mark or impression on my soul. Tuesday’s with Morrie has done that with rapacious wit, candora, melancholy, but most importantly, truth. Life is to be lived, and fully, not sequestered away seeking money, fame. Life is who you love. This is a book to own. I hope my kids will pick it up off the shelf when they’re old enough and give it a read.
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