The Giver has to be my most favorite of all the childeren’s books I’ve read. I still have my copy from when we read it in the Eighth Grade, and I’ve gotten rid of all my other books from that time period. That means I’ve been packing this book around for little over eleven years. That’s how good it is.

Did you see that there are some-what sequals to The Giver? I’ve been meaning to read them, but I always forget when I’m in the bookstore. I’m gonna definitely have to search them out sometime.

I also agree with you on the “modern dystopic novel.” I don’t know if writers today have it in them, and if they do, who would publish it. I would love to read what today’s authors fear about the future, just as we know what Huxley and Orwell feared about the future of their world.

I love dystopic fiction. I started reading it back in my angstful middle school / early high school years. I think The Giver (Lois Lowry) was the first book I read of this genre and I just loved it. It quite literally blew my brain and rocked my world.

For me, these novels are so intriguing because they make us think about how our actions may affect our future. We have the fortune of hindsight, but these authors were expressing their own versions of the “worst-case scenario”.

In truth, I would very much like to see a modern dystopic novel. Unfortunately though, it would probably have to be filled with blank pages because we’re going to destroy ourselves through either war or the general destruction of our planet.