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Jerry Zgoda missed the entire Kevin Garnett era, but he's back covering the Timberwolves after working the beat for their first four seasons two decades ago. In between, he covered a bit of everything: Gopher men's and women's basketball and NCAA athletics, golf, outdoor recreation, sports media and a little Vikings and Twins.
Greetings for a final time from Target Center
With not much left to play for except pride, it was still difficult to watch the lack of effort displayed by the Wolves in the game-changing third quarter Monday. After the game the players were contrite and coach Rick Adelman was a bit salty. He was clearly upset by his team's lack of defense and listless offense.
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--Dieng has now scored in double figures in seven of his last nine games. Since March 16 – when he made his first start – Dieng is the league's second-leading scorer.
--The Wolves starters were 17-for-52 tonight. Corey Brewer was the only starter to shoot 50 percent.
--I would personally be surprised if Nikola Pekovic plays again this season. He's clearly in pain, the Wolves are out of the playoffs. But we'll see.
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61 of 64 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must-read for YA readers!
I've taken my time with getting to the Divergent series by Veronica Roth because I was afraid of all the hype surrounding it but boy do I regret it. I have just finished reading this book and I can't believe that I put it off for so long! This book isn't quite what I expected but it's certainly action-packed and I never knew what was going to happen next...
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148 of 158 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Packs a punch but misses its mark
Veronica Roth's Divergent is a difficult book to ignore if you have the YA dystopia bug. The five star reviews number in their hundreds and with its sequel Insurgent imminent and The Hunger Games - the YA dystopia against which all others are currently judged - riding high at the box office and in the book lists, to not read Divergent seems somewhat rude. Therefore, not...
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61 of 64 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must-read for YA readers!,
Laura Hartley (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
I've taken my time with getting to the Divergent series by Veronica Roth because I was afraid of all the hype surrounding it but boy do I regret it. I have just finished reading this book and I can't believe that I put it off for so long! This book isn't quite what I expected but it's certainly action-packed and I never knew what was going to happen next.
Divergent follows the story of Beatrice (Tris) Prior in a new dystopian world. In an attempt to proven the outbreak of war, humankind broke into five different 'factions': Erudite, for the clever, Amity, for the peaceful, Candor, for the honest, Abnegation, for the selfless and Dauntless, for the brave. Children grow up in whichever faction their parents belong to, but at the age of 16, they go through an aptitude test to show them which faction they belong in and the following day, at the Choosing Ceremony, they must decide the path for the rest of their lives. Tris knows that she doesn't belong in Abnegation like the rest of her family and so she makes the difficult decision to leave her family behind and join a new faction, Dauntless. A tough initiation process follows - one that not everyone will survive. As Tris tries to fit in among the Dauntless she struggles to figure out who she is and who her real friends are. As if finding herself in a new faction wasn't difficult enough, Tris has a secret that she learned about herself during the aptitude test. A secret that she has been warned to never tell lest it destroy her.
What I love about this story is that it doesn't seem fantastical in the slightest. The characters and the setting all felt very real to me that's all down to Roth's genius. Each character is flawed, some more than others, and this made it easy to relate to them as a reader and I found that I actually cared about what happened to the characters. When they felt sad, I felt sad; when they felt pain, I felt pain and when they felt happy, I felt happy. It is rare that you find a book in which you can truly share your emotions with the characters but Divergent is one of those gems. The book is written in the first person from the perspective of Tris herself. She often finds herself torn between what she thinks she should do and what she actually wants to do and isn't afraid to admit that she is sometimes selfish. I really loved this about her because, let's be honest, very few of us can say that we don't often have selfish thoughts no matter how hard we try to be moral people. Tris isn't afraid to admit it when she's afraid or weak but she's also strong-willed and determined not to be beaten. She is well aware of what her short comings are and that she hasn't been blessed with the best physique for a member of Dauntless, but she tries her hardest and at the end of the day, that's all that matters right?
The character of Four was also really interesting because his emotions were always undercover and you could never really tell what he was thinking. Four isn't a difficult character to love but because he doesn't show his true emotions very often, you're also sort of frightened and unsure of him for a large part of the novel. I guess this is perfect because that's pretty much how Tris feels about him for a large part of the story too so the reader and Tris really are as one on this adventure. I love that Roth didn't make him the stereotypical 'bad boy' (I guess that's what he is) but made him a real character that has much more to him than meets the eye. He does what he wants and he isn't easily influenced by the opinions of others.
Sometimes I felt like the characters seemed a little deadpan but I suppose that's all part of the 'dauntless' act and it made the moments when the characters were happy and laughing all the more special. This certainly isn't a happy story and it isn't one that suddenly retreats in a world filled with fluffy clouds. There is a darkness lining this book that is ever-present, even when the story takes a more positive turn. It is evident that there is more going on in this story than meets the eye but Roth has carefully staged this story so that the reader has absolutely no idea what's going on until it hits you in the face. The reader is on a level with Tris throughout the story - what she knows, we know, what she doesn't know, we don't know. At least, that will be the case if you have been completely unexposed to the spoilers that are just about all over the internet. I knew very little about Divergent prior to reading the story so I found all the twists and turns to be incredibly shocking and exciting.
There's no insta-love in this story! I think this book deserves a big fat hooray just for that. It's hard to find YA books that aren't centred on romance that still get the romance perfect but I think Veronica Roth may have done it. The chemistry between Tris and Four takes a backseat in this story, but it's always there lurking in the background. There aren't any PDAs or sexual scenes, in fact, the romance is rather chaste which I guess can be put down to the factions in which the characters were brought up in and the ones they currently reside in.
The story doesn't exactly end on a cliffhanger so you could almost read Divergent as a standalone novel and be satisfied at the end. That said, this almost certainly won't be the case because you'll want to find out more about this phenomenally interesting world. I did find the ending to be a tad abrupt as I turned the page on my kindle expecting to find more story when, in fact, it was already over. There were no clues whatsoever as to how this story will continue so you really are in the dark and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy of Insurgent! This is, I think, one of the keys to this story's success. This book wasn't predictable in the slightest and never knowing what was coming next made me desperate to keep reading.
All in all, Divergent is a fantastic and captivating read that I would highly recommend to all fans of dystopian novels. The combination of very real characters and an original plot make this an absolute must read and I understand now why there is so much hype surrounding this series. If you're looking for a YA book that stands out from the rest, then this is your book.
148 of 158 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Packs a punch but misses its mark,
Kate (Oxford, Oxon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Divergent (Divergent, Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
Veronica Roth's Divergent is a difficult book to ignore if you have the YA dystopia bug. The five star reviews number in their hundreds and with its sequel Insurgent imminent and The Hunger Games - the YA dystopia against which all others are currently judged - riding high at the box office and in the book lists, to not read Divergent seems somewhat rude. Therefore, not wishing to be impolite, I took the plunge.
Divergent takes place some time in the future in a city that was once Chicago. Every citizen now lives as a member of one of five factions, each defined by their overriding personality trait: Abnegation (selfless), Amity (kind), Candor (honest), Erudite (seekers of knowledge), Dauntless (brave). Each faction contributes to society in accordance with this trait. For example, members of Abnegation rule, Amity members are peacemakers and farmers and the Dauntless police this world. But there are those who fall outside the Factions, living a life worse than death as the Factionless. They drive the buses.
At the age of 16, the young are assessed to determine which Faction they suit but they must still make the choice of Faction on their own. Most opt for their home Faction but there are some who make a jump, turning their backs on their families. One such girl is our heroine. Known as Beatrice in Abnegation, she picks the name of Tris in her chosen Faction of Dauntless, although her fellow initiates name her `Stiff'. Divergent follows the initiation or training sessions that Tris and her friends (and the not so friendly) must undergo before they are selected to be members of Dauntless or, if they fail, cast out to be Factionless.
Through these trials, during which the initiates are taken to their very limits in physical and mental torture, each inflicting the same on their classmates, Tris learns that there may be an alternative Faction. Those initiates who don't perform as they should in the sessions may well be Divergent and, should that be discovered, they will be dead shortly afterwards. That is because they can beat the system.
Without doubt, this is a pacey novel. It's not a short book but Divergent is very difficult to put down. This is largely because of Tris - she has a habit of manipulating her way into our care. She's 16 but she constantly stresses how young she looks, how small she is. And in describing the truly horrible rituals she undergoes, it's difficult not to feel outrage on her behalf and sympathy for her suffering and admiration for her bravery. This is increased as we watch a girl emerge from self-sacrificing Abjugation rules to being able to express herself with tattoos, colourful clothes, even jumping off a train just for the thrill of it. Throw in a love interest that is delicately dealt with - no Twilight angst here - and you're going to care for young Tris.
Despite my strong feelings for Tris, I found Divergent a frustrating novel. There is no sense of the world at all. This is a big failing for a dystopian novel to my mind. Part of the fun is finding oneself in a familiar world transformed and distorted. We're told it is Chicago but this isn't a recognisable place or even environment. There's little description of Dauntless or any of the other factions. We're briefly told that Dauntless is dark, tall towers are mentioned, canyons frighten and trains travel outside the Factions but there is very little other than that. There is no sense of the state of the place. And what about outside? What about the rest of the world?
The idea that society can be divided into such convenient Factions is not believable. It seems preposterous to me that anyone could be anything other than Divergent. The fact that the novel presents inter-Faction fighting doesn't help the sense that this division could never happen. And where are all the adults? There's barely a sense of them in Dauntless.
Tris might be a fascinating heroine but the repetitive insistence on her small stature and undeveloped, childlike appearance doesn't tally with her increased strength and makes her relationship with Four incongruous and a little uncomfortable. She is also not always likeable - as the novel progresses there are actions that are not necessarily forgiveable. I wonder if they will be remembered in Insurgent or if they are already forgotten.
My main problem with Divergent though is the fact that the vast majority of it comprises the ritual trials that Tris and the others must undergo in order to be accepted as Dauntless. This means hundreds of pages of teenagers being forced to fight each other literally senseless in ugly duels as well as drug-induced confrontations with their greatest fears, facing a multitude of different horrendous ways of meeting a terrifying, painful death. Violence spreads outside the Pit, young people are reduced to the depths of despair while others are tormented by memories of abusive parents. It's all rather... unsavoury. As for the finale, it felt, to me, rushed and surprise-free.
Nevertheless, despite these rather major gripes, I read Divergent quickly and I will read Insurgent when it's released in May. There is a great deal of promise here and I was frustrated that the novel as a whole didn't live up to that potential. Perhaps Insurgent will prove a pleasant surprise.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Divergent from the Standards of Good Writing,
Writing a negative review of a book that has sold millions of copies and been adapted into a feature film might seem futile. Nevertheless, 'Divergent' is one of the worst books that I've read. Although I am nearly thirty years old, and a qualified English teacher, I read Young Adult fiction, accepting that I'm not the target audience. On occasion, I have been surprised. Series like 'The Hunger Games' have entertained me as much as their intended readership. Thus, I came to 'Divergent' with high hopes. Sadly, I was disappointed.
Beatrice (Tris) Prior lives in a post-American dystopia in which citizens are separated into different 'factions'. Those who are clever become members of Erudite; those who are peaceful Amity; those who are honest Candor; those who are brave Dauntless; and those who are selfless Abnegation. Teenagers must sit a bank of examinations at the age of sixteen, the results of which will determine their placement. This is the moment when Ms. Roth lost me. Every human being has more than one defining characteristic. 'Divergent' is therefore let down by a limiting, ridiculous premise.
Premise aside, 'Divergent' suffers from a lack of texture. Positive reviews suggest that Ms. Roth's characters are complicated. That might be true, were there any characters to be found. By the end of the novel, Four and Triss remain nothing more than words on paper, convenient labels for dull dialogue. Ms. Roth gives neither time nor space to their development. Her novel might amount to almost five hundred pages, but individual chapters can be finished in less than six. In short, 'Divergent' feels more like a summary of itself.
There are many Young Adult novels that I would recommend. 'Divergent' is not one of them. Still, there is one point in its favour - it's not as bad as 'Twilight'.
127 of 139 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant idea - totally gripping!!,
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Divergent is based around a surreal world divided into factions. Each faction is different and it's "members" have unique qualities and personality traits. There are five factions: Candor, Erudite, Abnegation, Dauntless and Amity. At the age of 16 all children must undertake an aptitude test to determine which faction they are most suited to - But they don't have to pick this one. So what is divergent? Well, the main character Beatrice or "Tris" as she is most referred to as is a divergent - this means that instead of suiting only one faction she suits a number of factions. This means she must choose between the faction her family belong to, Abnegation or another faction - but deserting her family would be the ultimate betrayal.
As Tris decides which faction she will choose she undertakes a number of initiation trials which are completely gripping - what a page turner! The relationships between the other initiates are explored and sometimes they are more enemies than friends.
Divergent is a brilliant read, I loved the new ideas and the new world that had been created. Tris is a fun, intelligent character with lots of wit - I thought she was fantastic and really surprising at times. I read this in two sittings it was that good - I'd more than recommend this book to both young adults and adults alike.
If you loved "The Hunger Games" then you'll definitely love this, but if you haven't heard of that either then give them both a go!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pick a faction and don't diverge.,
K. G. A. Alavi (London, England) - See all my reviews
I enjoyed this book so much more than the Hunger Games. It probably not fair to compare the two but they are on a similar subject. There is a good flow to this story and it makes this book an easy read. The descriptions are great the only small critique on that line is I did notice a couple of grammar and spelling mistakes, and if I noticed them there were probably more than a few. However I did really enjoy this book. For the first few chapters I kept thinking that was quick I will just read one more, then by the time I got to the later chapters I did not want to put the book down.
We join Beatrice on her journey of the most important year of her life. In this world society is broken up into 5 factions:
Amity (The Peaceful)
Dauntless (The Brave)
Abnegation (The Selfless)
Erudite (The Intelligent)
Candour (The Honest)
At the age of 16 the people of each faction are tested for their aptitude and must choose a faction that potentially best fits them. Once you join a faction that is it. Told in the quote "faction before family". Beatrice knows she does not fit into her own faction (Abnegation) as selfless acts simply do not occur to her on instinct. On the test day she is given the results of Divergent, and then told to never speak of it again, what does it mean? Why is it so dangerous? However the next day she must choose a faction and should she stay with what she knows as there is not guarantee she will fit in any better in her a new faction.
The whole book is written from her perspective, so we tend to get information and interpretations from her, which is ok. The book is well thought out and with great characters and character development. The only thing I could find wrong with the book were the fights. The book is quite action packed and exciting but there are few hand to hand fights so making slight mistakes in them is not such a problem. The problem with writing fights is it is not just which strike is thrown but you have to think very carefully about the positioning of each character when they throw and after they are hit counter. This was a minor detail in the book. The action in to book is more frequent short but brutal.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A great YA dystopian.,
This review is from: Divergent: 1/3 (Divergent Trilogy) (Paperback)
I'd seen many favourable reviews for this book before reading it myself, which is always a dangerous thing. Hype and hoopla surrounding a book can often lead to high expectations not being met. And although this wasn't quite as mind-blowing as I'd hoped it would be, it was still a very good, very well-written read, and has great potential for future plots.
I loved the whole idea of the different factions and how it forces our young characters to examine their own personalities and decide exactly what kind of person they want to be. The system initially seems to work well, although it's odd to our eyes, but soon cracks begin to show and insurrection seems inevitable.
There were a couple of great characters in there, including the main one, Tris, a young girl with unique qualities and a great sense of honour, as well as others that were not quite as well fleshed out as they could have been.
It's quite a violent world for ones so young, but anyone who's read the Hunger Games will be accustomed to reading about those type of things by now. And they are also handle realistically here, which I appreciated.
Unlike the Hunger Games, which gets off to a very quick start and maintains a fast pace throughout, Divergent slowly creeps up on you instead, culminating in a fantastic tension-filled ending. The training section is long (perhaps overly so), but the plot twist at around 3/4 of the way through was thrilling and also slightly terrifying.
The romance was pretty cute. The boy (I shan't say his name for fear of spoilers) is a total sweetie-pie, and admires our heroine despite her own insecurities about being so small/looking so young.
I will definitely be reading the rest of the series, but since I've heard Insurgent has a killer cliffhanger, I've decided to wait until book three comes along, which will be on September 26th 2013.
Recommended to fans of the Hunger Games and other YA dystopians.
4 Stars ★★★★
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Different twist on dystopian genre, high on action and character,
K. J. Noyes "Katy Noyes" (Derbyshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1) (Paperback)
4.5 stars
Dystopian society? Check
Female heroine? Check
Violence? Check
Society breaking down? Check
One of the most popular genres right now, it takes a little something extra for a book to stand out from the crowded shelf. Luckily, I think Roth's series has that something. Similar to the Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies/Pretties/Specials trilogies, Divergent starts off another trilogy with the interesting twist: people are divided into factions based on their characters. Different. There are five factions, one for those who are selfless, one for those who crave knowledge and learning, one for those who are brave, etc. At age 16 you choose your faction for life.
Beatrice chooses to change faction from that of her family, a rarity. Has she made the right choice?
Thrilling in its violence (which is hard to bear given that Tris as she now calls herself is short and slight and faces larger opponents in hand-to-hand combat as part of her initiation), it's a visual world from the start, Tris herself likeable if a little naive at times (especially with regards to the obligatory love-interest).
The scenes that take our characters into their own psyches and fears are great - frightening, real, intense. The denouement shocking and brutal, with a wide open finish ready for part two.
Has messages at its core of acceptance and tolerance, knowing who you are, staying true to your ideals, but nothing preachy that detracts from the action. I think this has good gender-crossover potential with strong male and female characters and enough action to appeal to anyone in that frame of mind, as well as a fledgling love story.
Hope this follows Hunger Games into a film, it's ready for the plucking.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not The Hunger Games By A Long Chalk,
Andrew D Wright "Andrew W." (UK) - See all my reviews
Divergent by Veronica Roth (published by Harper Collins)
This isn't The Hunger Games. Not by a long chalk. It was rapidly put out into the Hunger Games slipstream because it's been pushed out of the same future-dystopia-teenager-saves-the-world mould. But it has three major problems; one, it is not the Hunger Games; two, it treads through the shallows in a creative landscape that offered so very much more; and three, the writing is hackneyed and formulaic in too many places. I listened to the audiobook and it was well-performed but I still found myself looking heavenward or wincing too many times as certain stock phrases and expected plot twists wormed their way out of the story.
But before all of that I need to say that the concept is quite excellent (and this added to my sense of disappointment I think.) We arrive in a dystopia Chicago where people have divided after a devastating war into five factions to keep the peace. These five factions are;
Amity (The Peaceful)
Dauntless (The Brave)
Abnegation (The Selfless)
Erudite (The Intelligent)
Candour (The Honest)
Everyone either sits inside each faction and gains support and their livelihood from this association (Faction before Family!) or they become factionless, the feckless poor who rely on handouts from those in factions to survive. Every teenager chooses a faction to join aged 16. It's such a great idea, there's everything here you'd need in a fast-paced future-dystopia YA novel. There's the choosing ceremony (think Harry Potter choosing hat with a bit more blood, oh and without the hat!) and then there's the initiation process the choosers go through as they join their factions.
Our heroine (the story's told from first person point of view just like the HG) is Beatrice - soon to be christened Tris - who changes factions swapping from selfless Abnegation to the seriously unhinged Dauntless (The Brave or frankly, the Bonkers!) The first quarter of the book really pulled me in. The world is realised well and we have a strong sense that where we're living is in some mutated version of society and that the fences which the Dauntless Faction eventually go on to patrol are in fact not about keeping dangers out, but stopping a different, freer kind of society getting in. We're in an annexed piece of America, a slice of the Land of the Free that has fallen a long way from its ideals. We experience the bleak and frankly ridiculous precepts of this tyrannical world where everyone accepts what is so obviously not going to work. Humans can't be divided neatly into factions, people's personalities don't slice that way, but like all really crazy tyrannies in human history what we're like doesn't necessarily feature in the wild beliefs that underpin this government. All of this worked very well, Tris, having chosen Dauntless after a ambiguous faction test, is actually the regime's worst nightmare - Divergent - which means she has the characteristics of more than one faction.
From the second quarter in my attention began to wane, along with my patience. There are long periods of initiation which, because Dauntless (such a great name don't you think) is all about bravery, are simply various forms of running, jumping, fighting and rolling about. It's kind of football league scores but for fighting, this aspect of the novel is a little like a video game but not as good - no explosions, ka-pows! and fancy graphics.
Where the concept runs into the sand for me is around where the author choses to take it. There's a lot of unrequited lovie stuff with a leader of the Dauntless whose name is Four (weird name, want tell you why he's called that as it will spoil the plot). The scenes between Tris and Four are agonisingly twee, the writing is clunky and repetitive and whereas HG did nuance and trauma through subtly and what it didn't say as much as it did, Divergent smashes you over the head with the plot moves as they come. It was very disappointed by the final quarter and listening to it on Audiobook up the speed to times two so they actress reading it sounded a bit like Pinky or Perky on speed just because I felt I knew exactly what was going to happen. By the end Tris was less a three-dimensional character, traumatised by what she'd been through, more a low-res avatar in some not particularly well-made computer game. I'm not sure why this is, perhaps the general overall lack of skill in the writing, or the youth of the writer means that the true trauma and horror the character suffers isn't drawing deeply enough from a well of real-world experience. Imagined trauma isn't the same as living through trauma and whilst of course I'm not suggesting that you need to be shot at, fall from a building or jump from a moving train to write about those things when dabbling in deep affairs of the heart and visceral emotions like loss, fear and abject terror, unless you've had a conjugate experience - some of the traumas life can throw at you - your ability to evoke them on the page is, well, muted. And that sums up for how this great concept was systematically eviscerated on the page, becoming less and less interesting, in the end I really couldn't care less about Tris and her emotional response to what happens to her parents suggested she'd lost the emotional plot too.
And that was it for me, not HG which was passionate, frightening and about what tyranny does to the human spirit and how that spirit responds. Divergent was about how difficult it is to establish a relationship when you're running, rolling, jumping and fighting. It lacked emotional resonance, probably needed to say less about more in terms of its themes and would have been so very much better, in my very humble opinion, if written by the author - who is clearly very talented - when she'd had a bit more trauma or life experience to draw on.
Sorry Veronica, just not for me, but I'm sure that doesn't really matter as it's done (doing) so well.
*** Three Stars
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1.0 out of 5 stars The Twilight/Teeny dumb-version of The Hunger Games (THG). Too may plotholes, too tweeny angst-y - ideal for teen girls,
This review is from: Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
The Twilight/Teeny dumb-version of The Hunger Games (THG).
It's just so teeny, love-dove, hero saves heroine, and everyone has a HEA.
Hero: Four - dashing, bold, with tats, tall, dark handsome chappie that has a few women swooning after him. The quiet deadly dangerous type oowwww
Heroine: Trish - small little blonde creature, constantly needs saving. Constantly swooning over the hero - even when she ought to have her wits about her she's thinking about what he's doing or whether he's watching her fight, or how big his muscles are. She's also dumb as s***
The best bit was when Trish gets beaten up. I stopped reading half way - it is dire.
I could go on about the plot holes but no need as many reviewers have done so already. However, little girls that didn't get The Hunger Games will definitely enjoy this (although I do know some intelligent women who have enjoyed the book but not as much as they did THG)
I don't think this is a unisex book like THG - going by the cinema crowd and book reviewers its a girly read. And didn't receive a fraction of the success that THG resulted in. And I'm not surprised.
Also, some off the things which the author presents as intelligent (as the Erudite) will leave you puzzling. I didn't find anything intelligent over basic strategies. Seriously it is hilariously stupid.
This review sums it up (from another review) Adam C. Zern:
"To begin with, I cannot think of a single compelling reason to read Divergent. Essentially every element I can think of in the book has been presented in other books and in a better way. True, there are no truly unique stories, but that's not Divergent's issue. Divergent's issue is that it is not only painfully derivative but it also doesn't do anything better than the books that inspired it.
Set in a post-apocalyptic backdrop of sorts, the reader will immediately see similarities to the incredibly popular Young Adult series The Hunger Games. Again, this is not an inherently bad thing. The problem is that The Hunger Games does everything better than Divergent. In fact, I found myself laughing out loud at elements of Divergent that were most definitely not supposed to be funny. Divergent presents a society fragmented into separate factions which fulfill separate but equally important roles. The Dauntless faction are the warrior/defender class, the Abnegation are the selfless servants and political rulers, the Erudite (one of The Thousander Club's levels of accomplishment!) are the intellectual class, and the Candor faction are the straight-talking truth-bound class. (There is also group of factionless individuals, but they matter so little to the story they're not really worth mentioning). Veronica Roth obviously had to find ways to present the attributes of each of these factions but the ways in which she does is so superficial it's somewhat comical. (The Dauntless faction, for example, jump off of a moving train as they travel from place to place to show bravery. Nonsense). The subsequent conflicts and struggles presented in the book become very generic and strangely predictable. There was literally not a single moment of shock or surprise while I was reading Divergent.
Divergent comes fully loaded with a love-story sub-plot that is full of teenage angst and longing. Gratefully, Divergent does spare the audience the seemingly ubiquitous love-triangle conflict of many other Young Adult stories, which was one of The Hunger Games trilogy's more irritating attributes. Yet, Divergent doesn't present a love-story that is unique or interesting in any kind of way. It's just there because, apparently, it's a pre-requisite of writing a Young Adult fiction book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Manages to compel you after reading its last page to immediately want to continue reading the sequel,
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'Divergent' written by Veronica Roth is another dystopian saga, one among many that have recently ruled the literary scene, being particularly popular with younger readers.
'Divergent' is the debut novel from Veronica Roth who on the pages of her novel brought the future similar to ones seen in the Hunger Games - after the great war that took place on Earth, the only way to restore peace and encourage population prosperity was to divide people into 5 factions that are named and dedicated to the particular virtue: those honest go to the Candor, those altruistic go to the Abnegation, the brave are destined to the Dauntless, peaceful for the Amity, while Erudite is for those intelligent.
On one special day every year, all young people that are sixteen year old must select one of the factions to which they will devote the rest of their lives. A reader will meet Beatrice Prior who lives in future Chicago, and when she will be put before this choice Beatrice will have to choose between what she feels is right and staying with her beloved ones. With the help of the test all young participants decide if they want to stay with the faction where they were born or transfer to another faction and because her test results are puzzling, and given that she cannot choose both things, Beatrice will decide to abandon her family faction Abnegation and enter another - Dauntless.
It's not easy to change factions, the initiation trials are strenuous and while going through the novel pages reader will accompany Beatrice, a divergent girl, while she is trying to become a Dauntless, both physically and emotionally, while her heritage and her past are standing on her way…
After the overwhelming success of Hunger Games that first won the literary, and afterwards the movie market, on the scene appeared a multitude of authors who with smaller or larger variations try to offer similar successful formula of individuals which lives in dystopian world and want to change themselves and the world. It could be said that dystopian genre evolved further more into several sub-streams and thus appeared some dystopian novels that they were leaning more toward romance such as Delirium, those that want to provoke audience such as Wither or Red Rising and those full of action such as Divergent that offer plenty of thrilling events on its pages.
Veronica Roth is not a bad writer, just the opposite; she is skilled and imaginative storyteller with a special talent for delivering scenes full of adrenaline, great fighting scenes that would look great on big screen. So it was no surprise to find out how this novel will soon be released in cinemas and certainly great success can be expected while mostly young adults will enjoy the Beatrice's thrilling adventures. Particularly it's great to see how innovative is the author while picturing various tests through which the main characters are going on the road to discovering what they are and what fate awaits them in their lives.
On the other hand, when the novel is stripped away from all the action scenes and all the excitement that the author generously offers on her pages, the reader will realize that in fact there is not much story in the novel that it only starts in the last quarter. In that way 'Divergent' just actually made a good preparation for the saga continuation.
But this novel should not be considered in such a way, dissolving it into the ingredients but instead should look at it as a product that offers plenty of fun and excitement for younger readers and those looking for a good time that will not be able to stop reading it until the last page, what is proven with its success worldwide.
Therefore, 'Divergent' is exciting title that brings lot of action and provides good entertainment. Veronica Roth manages to engage reader in the story, entertain her/him, make reader fear for the main character, asking what will happen to her, but most importantly manages to compel you after reading its last page to immediately want to continue reading the sequel.
And that is the quality for which the author should be congratulated.
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By Tom Breihan on May 29, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
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With last year's Alopecia, the Bay Area crew WHY? moved further away from the art-rap of frontman Yoni Wolf's past, cultivating the twisty, word-heavy art-pop they've been playing for the past few years. During the Alopecia sessions, WHY? also recorded another full album, one they've been tinkering with ever since. This fall, that album, entitled Eskimo Snow, will see release on Anticon. As Wolf was working on the Eskimo Snow packaging last week, Pitchfork spoke with him about the new album, the state of Anticon, and his personal relationship with hip-hop.
Pitchfork: So I understand you are working on a new album?
YW: Yeah! Just finished it up, actually. It's called Eskimo Snow.
Pitchfork: Is there a story behind the title?
YW: It's the title from a song, one of the songs on the record. It's part of the lyrics from that song. There's ten songs total. I don't have everything mapped out right now. I'm working on the art now; that's my current burden to carry. So I'm up at the photocopy place, about to get into doing some mockups.
Pitchfork: How long have you been working on the album?
YW: Basically, we recorded two albums at once when we recorded our last record, Alopecia. [Eskimo Snow] was supposed to come out first, actually, at first. Later, we decided to put out Alopecia first, and then we went back and worked more on this one and mixed it some more. But it's been in the works for a long time; it's been recorded for a couple of years. It was recorded in February of 2007, so it's been in the ether quite a while. It is going to be a grand pleasure to have this thing out in the world.
Pitchfork: Is there any reason in particular you decided to release Alopecia first?
YW: Well, upon thinking about it a bunch, it seemed like the correct progression for the development of the character in the songs. That's all I can say, really. I mean, after a while just thinking about the sequence of albums, this made the most sense. This seems like the next step from Alopecia in some kind of thought-life of the character.
We did both albums in Minneapolis in February 2007, and we had 20 songs we decided to record out of all the ones that were in the ether. It started to feel like it was two records. We didn't know, at first. We thought, "Well, maybe it'll be a record and an EP," or whatever. But there started to be some kind of distinction between two different types of songs, I guess-- ones that fit on Alopecia and ones that fit on Eskimo Snow. So that's how we started to cut it up. But I wouldn't say that it necessarily had to come after Alopecia. It just seems correct to me, you know?
Pitchfork: How did you decide whether a song was meant for Alopecia or for Eskimo Snow?
YW: There's a few different things. For one, lyrical content. I would say that Alopecia had more of a biting tone, more of somewhat of an angry sarcasm. And this one is a little more resigned, maybe a little more introverted in a way. It's a little more solemn, maybe. That's in terms of lyrical tone. With sound, there were also distinctions. With Alopecia, the drum mics were tighter in on the drums, and the drumming was generally simple and repetitive. Bass a lot of times played with the kick drum. The arrangements were super methodical and intentional and raw. And these songs are raw, too, but the Eskimo Snow songs are a bit more wild, and the drums have more room mics. They're more open. The sound is more open, more live.
They're both recorded live, for the most part, but Alopecia was so segmented. All the songs were like, "No, you do exactly that on this or that instrument." And it's the interaction between instruments, what they're not playing, a lot of ghost notes. This album is a little more free in terms of that. People were given a little more freedom to play. So yeah, it sounds a little bit more like players in a room, I think.
Pitchfork: When do you think the album is going to come out?
YW: Sometime in the fall.
Pitchfork: Are you going to tour hard on it again?
YW: Oh, of course. We always do. We'll be out all fall, pretty much, in the States.
Pitchfork: And is this going to be on Anticon again?
YW: Yep.
Pitchfork: I'm curious: how much creative interaction do you have with the other dudes on Anticon? You used to hear a lot about "the Anticon collective." It doesn't seem, musically at least, necessarily like a collective movement anymore. You all went off in so many different directions.
YW: I think there was this idea, initially, about what Anticon was, that it never actually really was. I mean, we even had an idea of what it was or what it could be, like everybody making these posse records. That never really happened. Eventually, everybody started developing their own thing, and everybody hooked up with their own bands and stuff like that. Since the past four or five years, we've been seeking out a lot of other acts to sign to the label, and have done so. At this point, it really is just a label. It's owned by a lot of the artists on the label, so that's a little different, I guess. It's more like a co-op, I would say, in that way.
But I mean, I do interact with other artists on the label. I'll be more apt to do a free remix for somebody if they're on our label than I would for somebody else, just because it's family or whatever. And I've done a couple guest spots on people's records, and people have done some guest spots on our records. I don't know what organizations work that way. Maybe Broken Social Scene or somebody like that. I don't really know what they do, but it seems like they're something like that, some kind of huge horde of people working on a record but everybody has their own thing going.
Pitchfork: You're on the new Themselves mixtape. Has there been any talk of dusting off cLOUDDEAD again?
YW: I don't think so. I mean, there's been talk. People talk. But I don't really have any plans to do that anytime soon. I wouldn't rule it out.
Pitchfork: You haven't rapped much in a long time, at least not regularly. Do you miss it at all?
YW: Well, I don't set up that line, necessarily, between rapping and singing. I think that there's so much gray area there. I mean, I'm influenced by lots of rap music and lots of other music. Even on a song where I might be using melodies and whatnot, I still might borrow a lot of phrasing from hip-hop styles. It's not like it's rap-rock or whatever, but it's just kind of having that kind of sensibility as vocalist. I feel like I'll always carry [hip-hop] with me because that was sort of the formative years of listening for me, my teenage years.
I don't know. The stuff that I've been writing recently has been a little more intricate in rhyme scheme. Out of a couplet, being two lines, every word rhymes with a word in the next couplet, stuff like that. It's just games I play with myself. Instead of doing crosswords or whatever, recently I'll do stuff like that. So the next stuff may be more rap because it's going to be hard to try to sing that stuff. But we'll see. That being said, this record, Eskimo Snow, is really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs.
Pitchfork: Are you working on anything other than the new album?
YW: I'm writing words here and there. But this album has been taking up a lot of my time, just finishing it up and everything, all aspects. The art takes a lot of time. So does just setting up photo shoots or whatever. There's always a lot of stuff that goes into finishing a record up. I don't know if major labels do all that stuff for you, but we're homegrown, so we do everything ourselves.
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The Sabaean Mandeans of Iraq
I'm glad that the plight of Christians in Iraq is starting to attract main stream media attention, but there is another persecuted group you may not hear about. The Mandeans predate Christianity, do not believe in Christ, and are believed to have been followers of John the Baptist. Accepting no converts, their numbers have always been small. Apparently, they migrated to the swamps south of current Baghdad after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Their writings are in Aramaic, the language of the Bible in the time of Jesus. Their rules and ethics are similar to Jewish tradition. Baptism is their central ritual; they call the water Jordan.
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After months or even years of anticipation, most pregnant women and their partners are certain that taking care of their babies will be a blissful if tiring experience.But for a minority of parents, the period after birth can be a nightmare called postpartum depression (PPD) that suddenly pounced on their joy like a bird of prey.It isn't the "baby blues" – feelings of restlessness, anxiety and irritation accompanied by occasional tears that affects between half to 80 percent of new mothers and usually disappears untreated after a week or two. PPD, which is moderate to severe depression, does not fade away by itself and must be treated. International studies estimate the prevalence at between 5% and 25% of mothers and even some of the fathers. This should not be confused with an even-rarer phenomenon (one or two per 1,000 births) of postpartum psychosis, which is a separate psychiatric disorder with symptoms such as hallucination, disturbed thoughts, delusions or disorganized behavior or speech and which usually attacks those who already suffer from mental illness.PPD is a universal phenomenon to which no society – including the most primitive – is immune. In Malaysia, for example, the traditional culture includes a belief in a "spirit" that lives in the placenta and fluid filling the uterus and feeding the fetus; after birth, when the spirit is "angry," it causes the mother to cry, have difficulty sleeping and lose her appetite. A shaman is brought in to hold a seance to force this Asian-style dybbuk to flee.But PPD is real, and it can be very painful and destructive to the family. As the phenomenon is still in many cases hidden under the covers in Israeli society, the Knesset Health Lobby headed by Kadima MK Rachel Adatto recently initiated a meeting on the disorder. The two-hour session was attended mostly by women activists, mental health experts and a smattering of MKs and government officials."I am a gynecologist by profession," Adatto said, "and I have treated women with PPD. The subject of postpartum depression makes headlines from time to time, and then it disappears. For example, some speculated that PPD was involved in the case of the twins who reportedly suffered from shaken-baby syndrome. I decided raise the issue more seriously at this meeting to increase awareness," Adatto said."I have dealt with such patients too," said Hadash MK Afou Agbaria, a Russian-trained Israeli surgeon from Umm el-Fahm."Family doctors and tipat halav [family health] centers must be more alert to the problem.""Postpartum depression is regarded as a woman's problem" added Dr. Leonid Eidelman, chairman of the Israel Medical Association, which co-sponsored the event. "It is a public issue, a quiet enemy and sometimes a silent killer. People want to distance themselves from this problem. But PPD has to be treated; there is treatment! Families should know. It is not only hormones.Everybody has to work to help the victims.If we can save women who hear about this conference and seek help, we have carried out our mission," Eidelman said.HADAS, A 43-year-old modern Orthodox woman with a headcover and a skirt down to the floor, was introduced as someone who had struggled with PPD. When she spoke, she mesmerized the audience."I was overweight as a child," she recalled. "My teachers said I had 'organization problems,' that I was slow and needed to go to special education classes. They insisted I had problems connecting with people."But Hadas nevertheless earned her high school matriculation certificate, did her national service, studied special education at Bar-Ilan University, married and gave birth to a baby girl."I was very happy. I received a teaching degree and then had another baby girl. But when we moved to Beit Shemesh, I had problems getting settled. My elder daughter didn't make good connections to other children, so the experts recommended that she go to special education. It turned out she suffered from PDD [pervasive development disorder, a mild form of autism].Then I became pregnant again with our third daughter. The baby refused to breastfeed.I felt weak and anxious, and I thought of causing myself harm. I decided to tell the family doctor about the problem. And he sent me to a mental health clinic."There, Hadas was told that she couldn't be given medication because she was breastfeeding."But I stopped that and got pills. The problem was that they didn't help," she said.Her symptoms got so bad that she was willingly hospitalized in a mental health center."I was constantly crying because my newborn baby wasn't allowed to remain with me. The psychiatrists gave me more diagnoses and drugs. I suffered terribly from side effects. I wrote then in my diary that 'I feel heavy, don't find my place, am enveloped in darkness. What will happen to me? I miss my girls and want to be with them. When will this nightmare end? Maybe I will drown.' I was hospitalized there for a whole year. My husband was torn between me and the kids, and he still had to support the family."Finally, said Hadas, she was discharged, not because she had recovered but because the institution suffered from a staff shortage.She didn't feel well after returning home."We were greatly helped by our religious community; the neighbors volunteered to make meals and mind the kids. But the situation became worse, and I was in and out of the psychiatric hospital. I was sent for diagnosis of organic and other problems; even a neurosurgeon saw me. I received other medications. I was referred for living in a hostel, and I went home from time to time. I was scared to do things after years of not doing anything. I was afraid of hurting myself."One day, a physician asked about her menstrual cycle."He said he had noticed that I had depressive symptoms usually around the same date in the month. I was diagnosed as having premenstrual syndrome and that it was involved in my depression. I was treated, and a Filipina caregiver was hired to help me at home. Then I got pregnant again with our fourth daughter, and my father died suddenly. I had a cesarean section. It was hard. I was hospitalized again for depression. But things have much improved. Five years have passed. I am better."Hadas urged that doctors, nurses and social workers in the system be trained on PPD to become more aware of the problem.She also bemoaned the fact that there are no inpatient psychiatric facilities where the mother and her baby can stay together under supervision."It makes it even worse if the baby is taken away and raised at home. This could shorten hospitalization and rehabilitation. There must be a pleasant place in the hospital where the family can get together.""Dr. Boris Nemetz, a member of the Israel Psychiatry Society and director of the Beersheba Mental Health Center's psychiatric department and depression clinic told the participants that women and men equally suffer from depression, but females often get it at different stages in life – usually at younger ages – than males. Often, depression is connected with life events such as menstruation, pregnancy and menopause". boys and girls equally suffer from depression, but women to men as 2:1" The age of depression becomes younger" instead of "but females often get it at different stages in life – usually at younger ages – than males ""It was once thought that pregnancy protects against depression," Nemetz said."But the opposite is true. Data show that pregnant women are more liable to suffer depression, with 7% during the first trimester, 12% in the second and 17% in the third."After giving birth, mothers can be screened for PPD using the Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale, but "it is not enough just to look at the score. A good clinical person has to diagnose it," Nemetz continued.Along with a sad or depressed mood, symptoms of PPD include agitation or irritability; appetite changes; feelings of worthlessness or guilt; feeling withdrawn or unconnected; lack of pleasure or interest in most or all activities previously enjoyed; loss of concentration and energy; negative feelings toward the baby; significant anxiety; trouble sleeping; and thoughts of death or suicide.A mother with PPD may also be unable to care for herself or her baby; be afraid to be alone with the infant; and either be extremely worried about the baby or have little interest in him or her."The natural decline in hormone levels after delivery does not cause depression. If not, every woman would develop it," said Nemetz. "One has to have a tendency for it."Other non-hormonal factors in PPD are bodily changes, sleeplessness, worries about one's ability to function as a mother, changes in work and social relationships and having less personal freedom and time for yourself.Treating depression in pregnant women and afterwards in those who breastfeed is difficult, said the psychiatrist, because some drugs can cause harm to the fetus and to the baby. But some of the medications are safe. A combination of talk therapy and medication is most effective, he said.His institution studied Beduin women in the Negev and surprisingly found that of 104 who gave birth, 42% had PPD."There is a lot of unnecessary suffering. Intervention is needed," he said.Treatment includes talk therapy and medications. Having good social support from family members, friends and colleagues is also helpful and may reduce the severity of PPD, but it is unlikely to prevent it, experts say.THE US government has invested $18 billion in recent years to help women at risk for PDD. Although early detection by the Israeli health authorities and intensive support for affected women have been slow in coming, the Health Ministry and others have become aware of the fact that this pays off.Mira Honovich, the chief supervisor in public health, described a program operated through tipat halav centers. There are 160,000 deliveries per year in Israel. About 70% of pregnant women come to the centers for followup of their pregnancies rather than to health fund or private obstetricians/ gynecologists."The centers were set up to take care of newborns for health checks and vaccinations, but they expanded into mother-and- child stations and then to family health centers," she said. "Once the baby is born, attendance at the centers is almost universal. Public health nurses today are experts in holistic care, including pregnancy, breastfeeding, vaccinations, home safety, vaccinations, family violence and physical and social problems. Not only the baby is examined, but the woman is, too.If PDD is suspected and intervention is needed, the nurse refers her to the mental health authorities."A pilot program to diagnose PPD has been set up by the ministry, with voluntary organizations like Em Le'em Bakehila (Mother to Mother in the Community) promoting personal connections. Experienced mothers are matched up with families with PDD, supplementing them and making regular home visits to provide much-needed support. Social work experts have urged that this program – developed in Boston – be implemented all over the country.Another sector besides the Beduin that has high rates of PDD or hides it is the haredi community. Dr. Rina Bina, who heads the health section at the voluntary organization Ezer Mizion and lectures at Bar-Ilan, said her research n 804 such women has shown 8% had PDD. "But they usually don't go or treatment," she said.As childbearing is recognized as the wife's most important role, those with psychological problems after delivery tend to be ashamed. As families are so large, the pressures are multiplied.Stigma, concluded Dr. Gadi Lubin, head of the ministry's mental health department, "is difficult to cope with. So this meeting is helpful to raise awareness. Our programs through tipat halav are vital. We recently did a course for 30 women who will give support to mothers. This network will help give support and reduce the number of women who suffer and don't seek help."
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Dr. Ogbru received his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy in 1995. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Arizona/University Medical Center in 1996. He was a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and a Regional Clerkship Coordinator for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy from 1996-99.
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PRESCRIBED FOR: Rituximab is used for treating non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphomas that have CD20 receptors on their surface. It is used when lymphomas recur following other types of therapy or are unresponsive to other types of therapy. It is approved for treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Wegener's granulomatosis, and microscopic polyangiitis. Rituximab also is combined with methotrexate (Rheumatrex, Trexall) to treat rheumatoid arthritis in patients who have failed other biologic medications, such as infliximab, etanercept, or adalimumab.
SIDE EFFECTS: The most common side effect of rituximab is a constellation of symptoms (fever, rigors and chills) that occur during administration of the first dose of drug. More than 80% of patients experience these side effects, and it is severe in 4-7 out of every 10,000 patients. The side effects appear only 40% of the time with the second dose of drug and and become less frequent with the last two doses.
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Terror in the Aisles is a 1984 documentary film about horror films featuring clips from Friday the 13th I and/or II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween I and II, Jaws 1 and 2, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Shining and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and The Birds. The film is hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Beal.
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