Lit ► The Giver

[LionHeart14]

I'm suprised to not find a thread about this book, so I'll make one ^.^

The Giver is one of my favorite books; I think it's creative, interesting, and has a lot of meaning.
Anyone else read it? Do you like it?
And you can also discuss the companion books Gathering Blue and Messenger. Both of which were also very good

 

[Solar]

I liked The Giver very much, Gathering Blue was also good. Messenger was okay, I liked the message of the book more than the writing itself.

 

[Fractured_Heart628]

Yeah, I read the Giver a couple years ago. It was very interesting. But, I have yet to read the other two books of the series. I've heard that there was a movie based on the Giver. I don't know if it is true or not.

 

[Lumen et ignem]

The Giver was one of my favorite books though I haven't read the others. The plot of the book was written really good.

 

[Kazuma]

I love this book. I couldn't stop reading it when I started it.

 

[Ventus Air-Man]

The Giver was very good. It was inspirational and portrayed a lot of feeling. Coincidentally, I just finished Gathering Blue this morning, but I thought it wasn't as good, if you compare the two. I haven't read Messenger yet.

 

[Aria]

I have mixed feelings about the Giver. I can't decide if I love it or hate it yet xP

 

[LionHeart14]

The Giver was very good. It was inspirational and portrayed a lot of feeling. Coincidentally, I just finished Gathering Blue this morning, but I thought it wasn't as good, if you compare the two. I haven't read Messenger yet.

The Giver is definately the best book in the series. Gathering Blue was definately my least favorite, but that's just because nothing really happened... There wasn't exactly a main conflict or anything.
Messenger's pretty good; I liked it better than Gathering Blue but not nearly as much as The Giver.

 

[Ventus Air-Man]

^Good to know. I did think that Gathering Blue was worse than The Giver. Like you said, there never wasn't really a main conflict.

 

[Hidden]

I thought Lois Lowry's "The Giver" was a beautiful and strange piece of fiction. I cannot even remember now when it was I first read it (funny, given the subject of the book); it could have been anywhere between my fifth and ninth grades. I couldn't have told you what most of it was about, when I first read it, at least in terms of what it all 'signified'--I hated questions like that in reading, and still do in some ways. But the book itself I loved. I 'stole' a copy from my high school a few years ago -some freshman I assume had left it in a bio class I was in, and when they didn't claim it by the end of the year, I took it for myself-, and I really ought to reread it sometime. Ah! the description of the color red:

Dumbfounded, he stared at [the sled]. This time it was not a fleeting impression. This time the sled had -- and continued to have, as he blinked, and stared at it again -- that same mysterious quality that the apple had had so briefly. And Fiona's hair. The sled did not change. It simply was -- whatever the thing was.

[...]

"I'm right, then," The Giver said. "You're beginning to see the color red."

 

[Roa]

I read the first one in 6th grade.

It was okay, i loved it, but it was just okay. i don't plan on reading it or antyhing again, sadly.

 

[Superschlock]

I hated the ending and the fact that I had to read it along with the rest of the class ruined it for me

 

[loke13]

This book is an abomination it deserves to have every single copy of it burned and destroyed.

 

[Pinwheel]

I only read The Giver. Are there sequels? And is it the book where the world has no hot or cold, and no color? If so, it was a pretty fantastic book if I do say so myself.

 

[Reflection]

This book is an abomination it deserves to have every single copy of it burned and destroyed.

shouldn't you be in a ray bradbury novel somewhere

 

[Neko]

This was one of my summer reading books for 7th grade. I thought it was a pretty okay book, but it kind of made me upset. I really didn`t like the ending all that much I think. I barely remember it though. I wanted to read the companion books but never did.

 

[AxelYoYo]

The Giver was a little confusing to me. Well, at the end it was.
The other two books I haven't started.

 

[Apollo]

I remember it being a pretty good book. But the ending made me wanna read the other two books... never found them/got around to it.

 

[Wintertide]

I thought it was OK. It isn't good enough to make me go out and read the other two sequels.

 

[wii.red24]

i like the giver i also like another book its called the overton window by glenn beck