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The White Darkness
Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2006-09-07)
ISBN: 0192726188
EAN: 9780192726186
Paperback: 272 pages
Edition: New Ed
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Customer Reviews
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Vivid and beautiful
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-05
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
White Darkness is a beautiful, imaginative and satisfying read. Very believable characters and a great heroine in Sym. Her constant companion,
Titus Oates, gives her so much strength although he is only in her head!The landscape of the Antarctic is brought to life so vividly. The cold, the snow, the slowness of time passing in difficult circumstances all feel so real to the reader. Many twists and unpredictable turns along the way, all created in a lovely writing style that just feels so spot on.
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Awe-inspiring
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-17
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is an incredibly moving, beautiful, frightening and suspenseful book. I was up half the night, unable to put it down, desperate to know what was going to happen. I've never read anything by the author before (I'm 36, so maybe that's why), but she is now in my list of top ten writers. It was completely unpredictable, and yet she made it totally believeable, and made it matter - the story and the characters are indelibly etched on my mind. Utterly unforgettable, compares favourably with Ursula K Le Guin's ice-bound classic, The Left Hand of Darkness. Buy it!
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My favourite book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-23
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The White Darkness is my favourite book ever. I was about nine years old when my (highly intelligent)friend read this book and phoned me up and told me that I was identical to Sym (She hastely added minus the 'imadginary' friend) and seeing as there has never been anyone remotly like me in a book before I had to read it. I am very glad I did as it is my favourite book ever. And I read a LOT of books.
Naturally, given the above explination, you can probably guess that my favourite thing about the book is the main charector, Sym. And you would be right. This is the first and only book I have read that the main charector is deaf. It pefectly portayed what living with hearing aids at fourteen (and younger, both of us starting to wear them at seven, when kids aren't so polite about them). Of course several of the subtle annoyences with hearing aids where left out, such as if you try to talk to anyone on the phone you can't wear them and have to take them out (very very annoying).
Sym is also very easy to relate to with her puzzlement at teenage culture (sure a rather tamer version then what really happens but these are her friends). Trying to understand girls infactuation with gangaly, acne-ridden, brutish (and evil) boys that expect you to be begging you to worship (and other stuff) is perfectly portrayed.
The actually story of the novel is a charming adventure with Sym (and the reader) oblivious to what is going to happen. It is fantastically well written and the story is perfectly layed out.
This book easily gets five stars and an instant reccomendation for anyone.
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White Darkness a rather nasty book.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-11-11
0 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book comes with dazzling reviews but its really rather nasty in its storyline. It concerns a handicapped child with an 'uncle' who at first appears eccentric but is really mad. I was amazed that this was targeted at children and there was not a single sympathetic character in it, not even the heroine. It displayed an erudite knowledge of Antarctica and Captain Titus Oates but did nothing to enhance his memory. It glossed over the extreme danger the heroine was in on the ice and the ending was trite. No way should this book have been nominated for any award. As I said Nasty!
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The White Darkness
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-08
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a very good book by Geraldine McCaughrean, set in the Antarctic. It follows a girl called Sym as a quick family get-away to Paris suddenly spirals out of control: Sym's Uncle Victor has decided to take her to Antarctica! For Sym it's a dream come true, but as the story unfolds it gradually turns into a nightmare.
Sym and her uncle Victor are origionally part of a group thats exploring Antarctica. But on arriving at Antarctica, Victor tells Sym of his real plans for the trip: to reach a theriotical landmark in the dead heart of antarctica.
This is a fantastic novel, it's very well written and is a real page turner!
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