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Indlæser... The Sky Inside (2008)af Clare B. Dunkle
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Everyone lives in a domed suburb, watching TV, buying more goods, voting in meaningless elections - a thought provoking look into our future. Martin's sister Cassie is one of the Wonder Kids, a genetically engineered group that are shipped away as their thirst for knowledge and ceaseless questions are viewed as a threat. Descriptions of this future world were not always well crafted, but there are many points for discussion in the book. Honestly, I'm a bit torn on my opinion of The Sky Inside. While it was quite a page turner, I found myself feeling that it could have been better. The characters and ideas were intriguing and certain plot elements seemed perfectly done, but there were also parts that went too quickly to understand. As I neared the last twenty or so pages, I found myself wondering if it was supposed to have a sequel, b/c I didn't feel that the ending was even close to completion. As someone stated already, it seemed to end just before it should have. Overall, though, I enjoyed the experience of The Sky Inside. It really does make you think about how we live our lives and how what we do will effect the future. [edit, 10/2011] Just re-read this for possible inclusion in the Tome O'Dystopia. I'm having trouble coming up with anything to say about it, because there's just not much to this. The sequel, IIRC, gets more into the world setting and what the political structure is like, but I don't have the investment to reread that one, too. This is just a boring book about a kid and his magical dog-bot. *** There's a lot of convenience here, plot elements that just fall into place as necessary--and disappear as neatly, too. It starts slow and keeps going, plodding along without creating any investment in the plot for the reader. Not a bad book, but definitely not great, either. [7/2008] Read my review of this awesome dystopian novel at http://bourg.info/2012/04/09/the-sky-inside-by-clare-dunkle/ ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Thriller.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML:Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow theyâ??ve stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever matter of national importance the president has on the table. Today, it is the color of his drapes. Itâ??s business as usual under the protective dome of suburb HM1. And itâ??s all about to come crashing down. Because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martinâ??s sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where she has gone. The way Martin sees it, he has a choice. He can remain in the dubious safety of HM1, with danger that no one wants to talk about lurking just beneath the surface, or he can actually break out of the suburb, into the mysterious land outside, rumored to be nothing but blowing sand for miles No library descriptions found. |
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The prologue is a great example of counter-productive prologues. It tries to get you interested in the story by showing what's at stake, but at this early point I have no reason to care about the characters who are suffering. Later on in the book, after the naive (understandably so; he's a kid) protagonist has sought and earned and found the knowledge of what's going on, we find ourselves confronted with the same situation, and this time we care.
The book (ignoring the prologue) starts out simply, the setting almost cliched, but there's enough nuance to it that it builds into something quite powerful. Often I can't believe in the inhabitants of dystopias, but these characters were all real people leading real lives within their limitations - and it wasn't only the main character resisting those limitations. The ending, too, is hopeful without being unrealistic. ( )