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Favorite Popular Books
By: BerserkFalcon Date: December 13, 2014, 4:31 pm
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Which is your fave?
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: Zenwarrior54 Date: December 13, 2014, 5:08 pm
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Casin0 Royale
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: Stickly Date: December 13, 2014, 9:51 pm
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What's "The Giver"?
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: Black_addes Date: December 13, 2014, 9:53 pm
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The fault in our stars is awesome
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: nitrox116 Date: December 13, 2014, 11:05 pm
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I've read all of these except Fault in Our Stars.
The Giver is definitely my favorite. For Stickly's benefit,
it's a futuristic dystopian novel about a boy named Jonas. He
lives in a society where there is no war or unrest, but no
emotions or choices either. Everyone's jobs and spouses are
selected by the Elders, and people are assigned children made by
Birthmothers. Everything in the society is regimented: if a
child doesn't pass certain checkpoints as they grow, they are
"released:" in other words, killed by lethal injection. The
same thing happens if twins are born. Jonas is assigned to be
the "Receiver of Memory," who receives 'memories' from a man
named the Giver. These memories contain information from ages
past, when there was still color and emotion. Jonas is inspired
to escape his society, taking the memories he has received with
him, so they will dissipate into everyone's minds.
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: M217 Date: December 14, 2014, 2:04 pm
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Wow, nitrox. Much spoiler.
My personal problem with The Giver is that the themes and morals
that is discussess seem to be aimed at teenager/young adults,
but it reads like it's for 11 year olds. It's decent, though.
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: nitrox116 Date: December 14, 2014, 3:37 pm
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Yeah, the whole age thing is a little off. Jonas in the book
was around 12, but for the movie adaptation, he was made 16-18.
That makes more sense to me, honestly. But at least it's better
than Divergent...
The thing about Divergent that annoyed me was this: The
message/theme/moral, which is made repeatedly clear, is that too
much conformity is bad and that you shouldn't just define
yourself by one group. The main character and her love interest
are Divergent, which means that they can fall into multiples of
these categories. The evil bad guys are hunting down Divergent
people – but not because they're different, just because
they resist mind control. The reason for this is never
explained (as far as I know, I've only read the first two
books). So, the moral is actually that if the evil people are
mind controlling everyone, you had better be one of the lucky
few who is resistant to it.
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: M217 Date: December 14, 2014, 3:39 pm
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Don't even get me started on that. Divergent has so little
continuity there's more holes than there is plot.
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: nitrox116 Date: December 14, 2014, 3:44 pm
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The thing about The Giver that I like was that it captured the
whole failed utopia thing in a way I feel a lot of novels don't:
in The Hunger Games, the society is obviously a dystopia from
the very beginning, and while Divergent has a functional
society, it's obvious at first glance that everyone is a fanatic
of some kind or another. But The Giver seems to have a
perfectly normal society at first, before Jonas discovers how
empty (and child-killing) it is.
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Re: Favorite Popular Books
By: M.T.F.B.W.U Date: May 24, 2015, 3:37 pm
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Well I have read all of them and love all them!! But gotta give
to the giver I love how all that comes down to jonas taking away
Gabe and I found it so sad when he finds what really happens
when you are released.
P.s : did anyone notice how jonas is 12 in the book but in the
movie they make it look like is 17 (Movies should not copy books
unless they know what they are doing)
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