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El Dador

Lois Lowry

4.08 AVERAGE

m_cruzzz's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

autumnallalong's review against another edition

5.0

This was one of the first books I felt like I truly devoured. I read it for the first time in my 6th grade English class.

This book changes the way you think and is beautiful. I hope to re-read it again.

anuraagl's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

badb_catha's review against another edition

2.0

It’s not that so much that I disagree with many of the premises of the book, so much as that I think it’s shoddily constructed and heavy handed. The world building doesn’t cohere and I also think the notion that only the Giver and the Receiver would have “real” feelings is absurd. One the positive side I was kind of struck as I read with the idea of authors as Givers and readers as Receivers, and that kinda works for me, but that’s a sidebar or postscript. For me the book was largely a miss.

cinmndza's review against another edition

5.0

I know many people my age who have read The Giver, because it was assigned reading in junior high and high school. I heard of it in 6th grade from a fellow classmate and even though I was curious, I never read it. Anyways, I've heard from some that it's an okay book, and from others that its a great book.

One day the boyfriend, his best friend and I are hanging out. We make a quick trip to Target and while we wandered around, the boyfriends best friend walks away, and we find him later in the book section. He was looking around for a while, and finally decides to get The Giver. It's one of his favorite books, and he's read it fourteen times before(!). He's so excited about reading it (or maybe we've bored him) but he starts reading it right away, and just follows us around with his nose, literally, in the book. He read it twice that night. So I borrow it from him a few weeks later, and it takes me a while to get to it but finally I get to reading it.

This book is beautifully written, and deeply disturbing. It is a haunting story of what human-kind would have to do, and the sacrifices we would have to make in order to create and maintain a Utopian society.

I loved the authors writing style, the way the book deals with disturbing and complicated themes, but I thought it might be a little too complex and powerful for ten and eleven year old's. I found this book very hard to read, only because of the plot, how it develops into a painful experience through Jonas eyes, and the struggle that he goes through in the end. I found the ending very intense, and have heard different interpretations of what it means from a few friends.

I highly recommend this book to anyone 14+ because I'm not sure if many younger readers will appreciate or understand the emotional roller coaster this book puts you through, especially when its assigned reading at school.

jailyn_faith70's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

jgurniak's review against another edition

5.0

Wow! I am usually let down by books that have so much hype about them but this was not one of them. Well deserved popularity! And oh my goodness, I had to read the last page a few times just to make sure that yes, that was the ending. Great novel!