Have you ever even read The Giver, bro?
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conulyBook one: The rich are leaving earth because it is dying and this girl is watching the last shuttle being boarded. An old woman gives the girl her ticket and the girl boards and clearly goes on an adventure. But at the ends up back on earth and gives her younger self (as she is an old woman at this time) the ticket to board the ship.
Book two: I don't remember much about the book, except that it was in English and the plot was about teenagers and masks that were manufactured in the basement of a school. The main characters find out about the basement laboratory and attempt to destroy it.
At one point in the story, the characters trap pigeons and cook them to eat. The book had a dystopia feel to it, and the colour grey sticks out in my mind, although I'm not sure whether that was the colour of the book or if the setting was described with that atmosphere.
Book three: I think that the book may start with someone’s mom going for a run in the morning and getting hit by a car. I remember it specifically saying that she turned blue after being hit. I could however be mixing this beginning up with another book.
Besides the beginning, I remember that there were two siblings and their parent(s)? Who were I believe forced to leave their home by the government and ended up waking up in this government facility with other families. Somehow all the kids ended up escaping and ran away outside and realized that they were on a different planet. They may have ended up having to walk out of or into some force field dome? The kids ended up having to learn how to create their own society. I specifically remember someone learning how to do astrology or something like that.
In the end it turns out that the government intended for this to happen in order to see how a new society would form, and how similar it would be to earth’s society?
The same dude about each of these books: "This sounds very similar to The Giver. Could it be that?"
NO IT FUCKING COULD NOT. NONE OF THESE BOOKS SOUNDS ANYTHING LIKE THE GIVER.
"Oh, sorry, it just sounded a lot alike."
!!!!!
These books don't even sound much like each other, so now I'm dying to know what the hell he thinks the plotline of The Giver is.
Book two: I don't remember much about the book, except that it was in English and the plot was about teenagers and masks that were manufactured in the basement of a school. The main characters find out about the basement laboratory and attempt to destroy it.
At one point in the story, the characters trap pigeons and cook them to eat. The book had a dystopia feel to it, and the colour grey sticks out in my mind, although I'm not sure whether that was the colour of the book or if the setting was described with that atmosphere.
Book three: I think that the book may start with someone’s mom going for a run in the morning and getting hit by a car. I remember it specifically saying that she turned blue after being hit. I could however be mixing this beginning up with another book.
Besides the beginning, I remember that there were two siblings and their parent(s)? Who were I believe forced to leave their home by the government and ended up waking up in this government facility with other families. Somehow all the kids ended up escaping and ran away outside and realized that they were on a different planet. They may have ended up having to walk out of or into some force field dome? The kids ended up having to learn how to create their own society. I specifically remember someone learning how to do astrology or something like that.
In the end it turns out that the government intended for this to happen in order to see how a new society would form, and how similar it would be to earth’s society?
The same dude about each of these books: "This sounds very similar to The Giver. Could it be that?"
NO IT FUCKING COULD NOT. NONE OF THESE BOOKS SOUNDS ANYTHING LIKE THE GIVER.
"Oh, sorry, it just sounded a lot alike."
!!!!!
These books don't even sound much like each other, so now I'm dying to know what the hell he thinks the plotline of The Giver is.
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Date: 2020-12-12 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-12 07:10 pm (UTC)There's also a whole swathe of people who, upon reading the word "underground" pop up to declare the book sounds just like City of Ember.
It is almost never City of Ember. It almost never has anything in common with City of Ember other than the simple detail of "an underground city". Sometimes they acknowledge this, but then proclaim that it must be City of Ember and the poster simply mixed up a few details. It never seems to occur to them that there might be more than one book featuring an underground society. It's worse than the folks on Amazon who are convinced that Just Ella is a really shitty sequel to Ella Enchanted. (One of those two books has magic. The other does not.)
But nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the commenter who replied to a book request about an actual factual evil witch and kids doing a ritual to protect themselves from her evil influence (one of the witch books by Phyllis Reynold's Naylor) was probably a Baby-Sitter's Little Sister book, and the witch was therefore Morbidda Destiny.
When called on this, they replied they were only trying to help. Yeah, well, help is supposed to be minimally helpful.
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Date: 2020-12-12 07:06 pm (UTC)https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/comments/kae1mp/ya_book_about_a_school_that_had_a_basement_which/
https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/comments/kafcmr/kids_recreate_society_on_a_different_planet/
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