In the past few years somehow we were bombarded by similarly themed young adult novels of exploding popularity that were of course also divoured by Hollywood and made into a whole lot of cheesy movies.

Honestly I’m not very happy about how Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” quartet also got shuffled in, as yet another one of these. I read the series a couple of years back, and there are certain aspect of it that I still think about from time to time. I find the quartet especially well written, and the stories deep and meaningful, probably a lot more than they’re being given credit for, especially thanks to the rather ridiculous movie.

So if you’ve just seen the movie and ran the other direction, I do ask you to please give the books a chance. It’s possible you’ll find something entirely different in there.