Christine Aziz
Paperback | Pages: 105 pages Rating: 3.12 | 405 Users | 62 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Olive Readers |
| ISBN: | 0330439634 (ISBN13: 9780330439633) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I cannot recall the exact moment when I decided to become a Reader. This is unusual for me, as I am always precise about beginnings...Imagine a future without a past, a time without memory, a state in which nationality, ancestry, tradition, language, history have no place. Governing this world is a hyper-organised system of corporations, a network of companies, each responsible for a particular product, each with a workforce conditioned to one end...But, somewhere, a clandestine group is operating to preserve the past...In the Olive producing region of Olea, the Readers are smuggling and storing books in a secret library hidden away in the house of Jephzat and her family. When her sister disappears under suspicious circumstances, and her parents are hastily relocated by the Company, Jephzat is ordered to remain behind. Alone and facing the suspicion and hostility of the villagers, she falls in love with Homer, an olive picker she once rescued from the hands of Company Commissioners - and a long-time member of the Readers. As Homer introduces her to the library, and her hunger for knowledge grows, so do her questions, and soon she finds herself closely involved not only in the recovery and preservation of books, but in a secret plan which endangers Jephzat herself...Identify Epithetical Books The Olive Readers
| Title | : | The Olive Readers |
| Author | : | Christine Aziz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 105 pages |
| Published | : | by Pan Publishing (first published January 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Dystopia |
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Ratings: 3.12 From 405 Users | 62 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books The Olive Readers
The winning entry out of 46,000 entries in a writing competition, The Olive Readers indeed has an interesting dystopian story line of a future time when water is a commodity more precious than gold. Hidden within the populace of the Olive Country is a group of readers who have compiled a library of books written in languages no longer allowed to be spoken. Jephzat is the daughter of scientists who are trying to determine the secret to creating water. I read this over a series of many months asImagine a future world where countries no longer are ruled by governments but by super companies. There's Water Country, and Olive Country and the workers in these lands have been relocated and mixed up so that the ties of language, history and culture can not threaten the control of the companies. In any totalitarian world, information is regulated and controlled and in the Olive Readers' world, reading is banned. But a select few, dedicated to maintaining history, knowledge and even working
A story set in the future, where the whole world is ruled by corporations... what i liked:- The importance of books & reading, in a world where people are restricted from gaining knowledge.. Books enlighten, books give people HOPE, AMBITION and pleasure.. books open new horizons, creates new perspectives and pleases our curiosity .... a book can build a civilization, and it even has the power to destroy it!- the fight for freedom, every individual has his/her right to live his life the way
Started off well, with some beautiful writing. The story seemed tantalizing a different take on the post-apocalyptic saga and pulled together many different intersecting strands, weaving a country both archaic and futuristic, where people have been uprooted and separated from their homes, their languages and their nationalities, to the point where no one knows their own origins. Governments have been replaced by Companies which produce a particular product, such as olives, or water, and
All in all a good story. Some parts were a bit slow and contained too much exposition or were too preachy. After recovering from the global warming catastrophe, the world has been taken over & run by corporations. Books and all art forms are banned & people have forgotten their past. Now, individual people have to fight for their freedom again. Fahrenheit 411 in a new packaging.One thing I didn't understand is how the companies make their money. There were references to how rich the
I feel like I wasted time. In the beginning of the book nothing happens (and I mean literally nothing) and yet I wondered how all this nothing will end - so I read on. Reminds a bit of the Hunger Games - districts and an ignorant heroine. There were parts I got excited about - the Readers and the esoteric explanations of the source... but it is little and far a part.... Will not recommend this book
There was so much wrong with this book which is a shame as I really enjoyed most of it. It drifts along in a lovely land but then suddenly there's a rushed ending with a worldwide revolution caused by one character happening in one paragraph hahaha! There's not enough description about the rest of the world, it's too focused on one place and although narrated by the main character she never reacts to anything. There's no resolution for most of the characters. The ending is just kind if vague but
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