Delirium: 1/3 (DELIRIUM TRILOGY)

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Personally, the most dreadful moment that made me conceive the author’s massage wholly, was the parents’ behaviour towards their children. To put it differently, they were cold and apathetic like robots or even worse. This moment send chills through all my body for the frightful and unbearable thought, that maybe the world that Oliver describes, is not as imaginary as it may seem. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistakes. But this novel still didn’t work for me. Delir­ium, unfor­tu­nately, failed for me. Which is sad­den­ing, because Lau­ren Oliver is a good author and I know, with Delir­ium, she was reach­ing out and try­ing some­thing dif­fer­ent. I just wish it had been more successful. I have said this before and I’ll say it again. I have no prob­lem with an implau­si­ble story vehi­cle. As long as the ride is good and it relates a moral or philo­soph­i­cal value. My emotions became more intense as I understood more each of the characters and saw how each of them was fighting their own battles. I want to talk about the three that stood out the most for me due to their choices and perspective on the matters they were dealing with.

I don't know how you all survived the past year without raiding Oliver's home and/or holding her publisher at gunpoint for an ARC, but I'm so glad I don't have to prove my non-existent patience with this one, because frankly, I about died reading that last chapter. This book focuses on a future society where love has been outlawed, and humans are cured of their ability to love at age sixteen. Lauren Oliver develops this concept into a terrifying yet realistic world; it's not hard to understand why the characters think of this world as a utopia. Sure, they have somewhat restricted freedom, but when their religion and all their elders believe so firmly in protecting them from love, how can they disagree? I can see how some people would really like this book, but it just wasn’t for me. I couldn’t possibly give it a higher rating than a 3. Ng, Philiana (March 1, 2013). " 'So You Think You Can Dance' Winner to Co-Star in Fox's 'Delirium' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 3, 2013.Delirium was an interesting concept for a book. It portrays a utopian society that is actually more dystopian. Love is forbidden and considered a disease. Adults get cured by having brain surgery at the age of 18. They then get an approved career path and match for marriage. The cure takes away your ability to feel emotions deeply, and in turn, makes it easier for people to live by a controlled set of rules. The government believes that love makes people crazy, causing war and harm to society. Some resisters, called invalids, live outside the protected boarder of the US. However, the cure doesn’t always work and some people find a way to disguise themselves, though, the consequences for resistance are brutal. La protagonista del libro es Lena Haloway, una joven que está ansiosa por recibir la cura y vivir una vida sin los riesgos y dolores asociados con el amor. Sin embargo, a medida que se acerca su fecha de curación, Lena conoce a Alex, un chico encantador y misterioso que la desafía y la introduce en un mundo lleno de emociones y sentimientos prohibidos. The chapter headings with quotes from The Book of SHHH, nursery rhymes, playground chants, Comprehensive Compilation of Dangerous Words and Ideas, government pamphlets, schoolbooks and others are simply brilliant and add to the story in subtle ways. Amor Deliria Nervosa sounds like what doctors might call love if they wanted to classify it as a disease. There are lots of little tidbits like this that are clever and creative and make me wish for more from this book. WOW balled my eyes out! I am so depressed! ALEX! That was extremely intense and it didn't end at all like I expected. I need to get away from these depressing books for awhile. Oliver, Lauren (January 23, 2013). "ANNOUNCING THE DELIRIUM TV SERIES!". Tumblr . Retrieved March 2, 2013.

But even if I could have set the worldbuilding and believability aside -- no easy task in a concept novel like this -- for it to be saved, the characters and plot would have had to really shine.Delirium has some great elements, enough that it made a big mark on me in grade six, but also far too much romance for my taste. However, I am now a cynical 25 year old, and books like this don't affect me. YA has come a long way since this was released, and I just noticed a lot of flaws (for me anyway). I noticed a lot of similarities with The Declaration but I preferred that book so much more. I probably will still read book 2 as I want to see where the storyline goes and how everything pans out. But overall, nothing mind blowing. I have mixed feelings about this triology. I don't like it or hate it. I just feel uncomfortable and I don't want to re-read it. This makes me think a lot. It certainly isn’t a world I’d want to live in, but at some points of my life, I felt like I had experienced the same thing. What would I choose if i were in their shoes? Would I choose to go against the treatment and lead a deprived live or opt for a settled but blank life? I don't know.

I have put the next book on hold at the library, I am not sure if I will read it or not at this point. I never thought I’d say this because, in my mind, Oliver is – and always will be – a fan­tas­tic writer. But there were aspects of the writ­ing in this book that were obvi­ous, cliche and sim­plis­tic. For exam­ple, Lena is emo­tion­ally stunted but it’s an obvi­ous par­al­lel. When­ever she feels intense emo­tion she blames it on the air con­di­tion­ing or weather etc. She is the result of a child­hood of emo­tional detach­ment – but not really – and this is where it gets per­sonal for me.

Lauren Oliver has said that the inspiration for Delirium came to her one day at the gym. She had recently read a Gabriel Garcia Márquez essay that stated all books were about either love or death. Since her first book, Before I Fall, was about death, she wanted to write a book about love. At the gym, she was watching a news report about a pandemic, and the two ideas combined in her head to form the central concept of the Delirium books. [1] Sequels [ edit ]

I really wanted to love this book. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, but it just didn't add up to the hype I thought it would. I would say I give it more of 3 1/2 stars. One point that I cannot overlook, is the beginning of each chapter. Oliver gives us some history about the world that she brings into life through some made-up historical, religious facts. Those facts add to the story some reasoning and comprehension, as they make it more easy to understand all the struggle of our main characters to feel what they try, so desperately, to suppress. It would be as if I woke up tomorrow and decided it was a terrific stroke of genius to wear my purple sombrero to the office. (Yes I do have one)

En este mundo distópico el amor ha sido considerado una enfermedad mortal llamada delirio o amor deliria nervosa. La cura es obligatoria para el amor, que todos deben recibir al cumplir los 18 años. La idea detrás de la cura es que eliminará las emociones intensas y los sentimientos románticos para lograr una sociedad más estable y segura. Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the president of production. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by AwesomenessTV; Before I Fall is now a major motion picture and opened in theaters March of 2017. The sequel to Replica, titled Ringer, is her most recent novel and was released October 3rd, 2017. It was extremely interesting and at the same time intimidating to read and to picture this system. The author’s writing style is one the most powerful tools, as it facilitates the readers to imagine and to be an inseparable part of the “amor deliria nervosa” world. Her descriptions are so realistic and so stunning that the story absorbs completely the mind and the emotions of the audience, making it impossible to put this book down. I found Lena, our protagonist and narrator, mostly weak, annoying, and infuriating. For example, there is a point in the book where Lena is caught with her love Alex, and consequentially is tied up in her room by her family. She is counting down the hours until her forced “procedure” and contemplating suicide. At this point Lena actually compares herself to (paraphrased) ’the princesses in the fairytales … waiting for her prince to rescue her’. Sorry, but, that about induced vomiting. -And I mean that in the best possible way.