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The Giver

I'm sure many of you may have read this. This book is awesome. I love it.

The ending is so ambiguous. It can be happy or depressing depending on your interpretation

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Is that the one about the boy who starts to see things in color?

I have read that.

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So many people have asked the author questions, I'm not sure if he answers them or not.

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The Giver, AKA Fahrenheit 451 Lite.

Still a decent book, though.

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I've heard of this book, and many many people claim that it is an awesome novel. If you cared enough about it to actually make a thread over it, then it must be worth it, so I'm going to have to give it a try.

This is the kind of threads we want to see more of in the artist's guild...+rep for making it.

I'm off to make one over the Trilogy I just finished. (Or am a few pages from finishing, rather.)

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I read The Giver, and Fahrenheit 451. Both are basically dismal outlooks on a possible future. I though that The Giver was all right, although, there were some contradicting ideas. It was a neat read though, and I read through it in the first night I received it from school. I just felt compelled to read it. Fahrenheit 451 is good too, but that's more of a dismal outlook on society in general, whereas The Giver seemed to be more about some secret "great society."

Both are good, especially for mandatory reads for English.

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I have read Farenheit 451, and I enjoyed it immensely. Some of my friends that read it didnt enjoy it that much, but I'm not sure why. It's one of my favorite books that I have read. I really really enjoy reading fiction books that are symbolistic of reality, books like Farenheit 451, Animal Farm, 1984, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby...

I also just finished reading "The Crucible" today. It was a very very short book...but well worth it. I was able to get a lot of information on the Salem witch trials, and I also learned that it was symbolistic for the Red Scare (mass hysteria in the united states, people were fearing communism) that was taking place during the time in which Miller wrote the play.

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The Crucible is a fine example of how powerful religion can be, and how people use religion to enforce retarded rules and break the same rules while everyone elses backs are turned.

Hooray for Jesus! Poopie on Stem Cell Research!

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I would be terrified to live in the days of "The Crucible". Everyone was extremely paranoid, and the days before seperation of church and state were very scary. I was appalled by the things I read and how the girls took control of everyone around them.

They fed everyone such ridiculus lies, and in the name of religion the court believed them. I think about 29 people were killed during the Salem Witch trials, and all the "hard evidence" they had were a bunch of young girls "crying out" that someone had used their spirit to try and kill them.

It truely was one of the most embarrasing and darkest times of human history.

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I found 451 more interesting. It showed what the future could be like, instead of the past.

Try A Wrinkle In Time too. Also, I, Robot was pretty good untill Will Smith ruined it.

Oh, and I almost forgot, Alas, Babylon is creepy too.

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Who is the author of The Giver ? It sounds interesting. I've never heard of it before though. I think I'll try to find it and give it a read.

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I liked 451 better also, the "The Crucible" was still a good book.

I havnt read "I, Robot", but I did read A Wrinkle in Time back when I was in elemntary school. I cant remember much of what happened...just a few key parts. Was it a satire, symbolistic, or prophetic novel as well? I cant remember, and at the time I probably wasnt intelligent enough to see it.

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Lois Lowry is the author, and I've read both Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver. I enjoyed them both. They were great.

but The Giver has dead babies ;)

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The Giver is great. I enjoyed it much more than many of the more depressing novels mentioned in here (sad books just aren't my thing - I just don't enjoy them).

I'm more of a Fantasy guy in general, though. The Wheel of Time series, the Sword of Truth series, the A Song of Ice and Fire series and all of the Shanara series are among my favorites (and I'm awaiting sequels of all of them).