The Giver
 

My bro brought home this book as a summer reading assignment. I remember reading it like 3 years ago. It was one of the few books that I can say was a very good book. Anyone besides me read it?

Re: The Giver
 

what grade are you in? because there are a lot of books you read in school that are pretty good in the years to come.

Yea read a long time ago. Wasnt it about a perfect society and everything was in black and white or some shit and people were assigned their occupations. My favorite book is the Phantom Toll Booth though.

Jotun, im 18, bean, thats the one.

i didnt mean to be offensive....

Well, im only 16, but I've liked a lot of books I've read in school.

My favorites are The Sun Also Rises and Huck Finn

np. Huck Finn= rock:

That was a good book the only other book I have read in school I liked was "Of Mice And Men"

The Giver was the worst book I have ever read.

Lowis Lowry makes shitty books.

the giver you mean that goatse pic with the big dick

i never finished it, what happens after the kid escapes outside of the dome city er whatever. oOo: damn i never finish anything..

They never come out and say it, but the baby and Jonas both die...

I read it in like grade 7, which would be 10 years ago. I think it was good, but I can't really remember.

omfg the giver

6th grade, all the gay projects we had to do for that book
i hate bullshit abstract writing too where you cant tell anything about the setting

best school-assigned book ive ever read- ender's game, Orson Scott Card (also one of my fav books ever)

worst school-assigned book- dead tie between To kill a mockingbird and fuckin Nectar in a Sieve

when i read the topic, i couldnt help but think of goatse

gayest book ever. i hated it.

The Brethren by John Grisham

For some reason, i really liked 'The Dragons Eyes' by Stephen King.

They never die. Supposedly they reach a city beyond their community. oOo:

and then die

i dont remember any of that shit...shows how much attn i paid

i was more focused on reading "it" by stephen king that year anyway...never read a longer book

I loved that book. Actually, i saw the movie when i was like 7.
Couldnt get proper sleep for weeks afterwards.. oOo:

I also enjoyed 'A Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams.
Long as shit, just as confusing, but it tied it all up really well in the end.

there is nothing worse than the book "Watership Down." Its a book about talking bunnies leaving their home and fighting against a Hitler-like bunny and have their own wars... without actual bloodshed and fighting.

read the book a few years back.

good book, gets you thinking, great plot...

...then you get to the end which is the worst ending possible. its like a cliffhanger.

My favorite book is For Whom the Bell Tolls rock:
wish we read it in school, i had to do a research paper on it.

that was pretty good

hated the ending. book was medicore.

Re: The Giver
 

as good as wuthering heigths "shivers down my spine".......



My favourtie books would have been heart of Darkness & Fifth Buisness possibly the 2 best books to me ever written.

If anyone ever gets the chance dl the book fifth buisness and read it asap. Amazing stuff.

Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mocking Bird were without a doubt the best books we've read in school.

Read Heart Of Darkness, then you can compare modern day American Imperialism to Dutch Imperialism of the olden days :)

+LOTF = good but not that good.

[quote="Short Hand":c901f]Read Heart Of Darkness, then you can compare modern day American Imperialism to Dutch Imperialism of the olden days [/quote:c901f]

Were not Imperialists, were not conquering then enslaving thats never been America ffs rolleyes:

Edit:Im a putz and clicked the wrong fucking button.

Indeed. and 1984.

very good books indeed

[quote="9mm BeRetTa":d23fd]read the book a few years back.

good book, gets you thinking, great plot...

...then you get to the end which is the worst ending possible. its like a cliffhanger.[/quote:d23fd]
Yeah, i hate when books have no definite ending...

Re: The Giver
 

read it but i lost it in the middle.

I fucking hated all the books ever assigned to me in school. Since they were all books that I had no interest in, for example... why the caged bird sings and the great gatsby, and never was I allowed to pick a book for my summer reading, school ruined reading for pleasure. I didn't even think of reading for pleasure until about a year after graduating... and I still don't like it all that much. I'm not sure if I ever read, was forced to read, this one though.

[quote="Scorched Earth":7850c] very good books indeed[/quote:7850c]

I liked those and also Animal Farm and A Clockwork Orange

Only books i have ever read for pleasure are or i should say were, the Goosbumps stories by R.L. Stine. biggrin: Good times a remember.

I have like 30 of those.

[quote=MrLevinstein]Were not Imperialists, were not conquering then enslaving thats never been America ffs rolleyes:[/quote:71afe]

The dutch had the saying were doing this to help them" As I see it your doing the exact same thing right now, your trying to force something down a people's throat and they don't want it.