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 Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:33 pm
Has anyone read The Giver/Gathering Blue/The Messenger? I really liked them all, although I have to say the The Giver was my favorite (except for the ending, but I guess it makes more sense after you read all of them). The end of The Messenger was really sad, and I was quite upset that wahmbulance SPOILER!! wahmbulance Matty died. wahmbulance SPOILER!! wahmbulance Oh well, they're really good books, and if you haven't read them, you must do so!
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:39 pm
I read The Giver. It really was an interesting book. It was... different. You had to guess what was happening, whether this was our world as different, or our world in the future. Maybe some random experiment, or something. Their community was so... odd. It was a good story, though.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:48 pm
I read it in school, so I got what was going on immediately because our teacher gave us hints. I stayed up until about 2 one night so that I could finish it.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:03 pm
I'll also read The Giver for school.
The class gave out opinions on what they thought was happening. I got kind of confusing, having so many alternatives to what they thought was happening.
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:59 pm
I really like the whole trilogy, though I never knew about any but The Giver until 2 years ago. How did those escape my radar?
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:46 pm
Kipluck I really like the whole trilogy, though I never knew about any but The Giver until 2 years ago. How did those escape my radar? I know, they're really hard to find!
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:04 pm
i only read the giver but i didnt read the whole trilogy. i really liked the giver.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:19 pm
You should read the rest then! They're pretty good.
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:40 am
i was about to read the second one but then i found another book that i found ineteresting.
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:08 pm
i started it today and finished it today. i absoultely loved it! it went pretty fast, but the sheer strangeness of it....wow. it was great. it's in my top ten, if not my top five. xd i still have book buzz because of it! biggrin
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:55 pm
Lois Lowry leaves all of us hanging... and then you get such a good feeling after you finish one of her books, despite the constant thought of what happens next in the story. I really like her thoughts, because the thinks in a totally different universe with all those aweosme sci-fi stuff.
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:55 am
I remember reading The Giver and thinking it was sooo good. And they played it really well . . . the whole *Spoiler* them not being able to see in color *Spoiler* thing. Like . . . I was so surprised and it changes your whole perspective on the book and their world.
Then I read Gathering Blue . . . and thought that the Giver was better.
But then Messenger really surprised me; I had no idea the three books were connected in any way. She did that really well.
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:16 pm
I read The Giver in 7th grade, and I loved it so much my teacher let me borrow her copies of Gathering Blue and The Messenger. I agree, once I realized just how different that world was, it completely changed my perspective of things. I imagined at first that a world like that was kind of neat, but then the spoiler that Merenwen99 pointed out made me realize just how horrible what it would be like, where anything different or unique is eliminated. A world where everything is the same, and you don't know that anything is wrong because you don't know any better *shudder*
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:02 pm
frankly, I think the giver was a horrendous novel.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:44 pm
I read The Giver in school and we each got to write our own version of the last chapter. It was cool.
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