Downsiders: Amazon.de: Neal Shusterman: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Simon Pulse; Auflage: Aladdin Paperba. (1. Februar 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0689839693
ISBN-13: 978-0689839696
Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 12 - 13 Jahre
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 18 x 10,8 x 1,8 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 226.858 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Meticulous 14-year-old Lindsay isn't exactly thrilled about moving to the chaos that she believes is New York City. Her flighty "career college student" mom, now divorced, has dumped her on her city engineer dad, "a man who lived his life twenty minutes behind schedule and in a perpetual state of apology." Lindsay is certain that nothing better awaits her than prep school boredom and constant battles with her evil stepbrother Todd. But she is wrong. Quite by accident, Lindsay discovers an unusual boy named Talon who resides in a secret city beneath New York--a kind of underground Oz called the Downside. Talon and Lindsey are fascinated by the differences in their dual worlds and soon grow equally fascinated with each other. But when Lindsay's dad's construction project hits a snag that reveals the Downside, it is not only the blooming relationship that hangs in the balance, but the entire future of the Downside as well.

Downsiders is both funny and compelling. But while Lindsay and Talon's observations of their distinct environments is humorous (Talon compares Lindsay's French braid to a "gator's tail" and, despite Talon's explanation that "time is of low importance," Lindsay still thinks it's strange that Talon wears his watch around his ankle), Neal Shusterman also uses their relationship to illustrate how much a particular culture both shapes our identity and affects how we view people from backgrounds other than our own. This call to look beneath the surface is cleverly and subtly woven through an original story with broad appeal. (Ages 10 to 16) --Jennifer Hubert -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Shusterman (The Dark Side of Nowhere, 1997, etc.) twines suspense and satire through this ingenious tale of a secret community living deep beneath the streets of New York City. The boundaries of Lindsay's lonely, friendless world expand suddenly when she meets Talon Angler, an oddly clad teenager who claims to have come from ``Downside'' in search of medicine for his sick little sister. Against his better judgement, Talon takes Lindsay on a forbidden tour of his own world, a subterranean maze of tunnels and chambers where he and 5,000 others live in peace and comfort, knowing ``Topside'' only from old tales and occasional peeks through street drains. Spinning Downside's origin from actual events in New York history, Shusterman creates a plausibly complex society with its own art, customs, and assumptions, then turns to view Topside culture, both through Downsider eyes and with a more general, broadly comic, vision. Despite frequent doses of social commentary, the pace never flags; their isolation breached by a Topsider aqueduct project, the Downsiders respond by cutting off all utilities (oblivious, New Yorkers respond with a huge block party), then, under Talon's leadership, filling upper levels with natural gas and setting it off. Urban readers, at least, will be checking the storm drains for peering faces in the wake of this cleverly envisioned romp. (Fiction. 11-15) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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original... 28. M�rz 2000

Von A. Creech

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There's something about the thought of a parallel world existing alongside of our own that has always attracted me. This is a wonderful portrayal of that, written with a sense of humour, but not without a dark side to the story.

The two worlds meet when 14 year old Lindsay meets a boy called Talon who is from the Downside. Although Downsiders have strict rules about not mixing with Topsiders or even going Topside at all, Talon decides that he has to go on a Topside raid when his younger sister is sick and only Topside medicine will save her.

Lindsay's father, who is an engineer working on building a new aqueduct in the city (New York), accidentally stumbles on the Downside. Although nobody realises what he has found, the Downsiders now feel that they are at war for their existence, and decide to teach the Topside world a lesson for invading the Downside.

This is a fast paced story, written with humour, that builds to a very satisfying conclusion. If you read and enjoyed this, and are ready for something a little heavier (and longer), try "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman. Believe it or not, there are Downsiders in London as well as in New York.

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Beware: Mental Involvement + humor ahead. 19. November 1999

Von Yael Lock

In The Downsiders, Neal Shusterman once again takes a major social concept and turns it into a remarkable story. (As in The Dark Side of Nowhere.) Lindsay is not your typical New York girl; she's part of the scene, but not really. What's more, due to some major bungling on the part of her engineer-father, she occupies a home that has, literally, a hole-in-the-wall. Her half-brother is simply a bane to her existence, her father barely even part of it, and so Lindsay is ripe for a good adventure. And she definitely gets it--with Talon, a boy she meets who lives in the Downside, an underworld that is simply out-of-this-world. Where is that? In the long forgotten, unused tunnels of the New York subway system. There is an entire society down there, comprised of humans who have built a life entirely different from that of the "Upsiders" but from their "garbage." (Oddly reminiscent of some otherworld... the ice-age? Refugees? Hmmm...) I found Shusterman's rich and fasinating description of this world and its people to be the best part of the book...followed closely by a terrific stampede scene. One thing for sure, the book is riveting...But as you put the book down, finished, you begin to think... We all want the world to be "ONE." But can two opposite sides of a coin meld together? What would happen to the coin? Should all the societies of the world combine? Would it be worth losing all the "richness" of the poor cultures...would it kill them off or help them survive? Another insight from this book: you really see how people in an impossible situation can improvise, and even create magic, in a time and place other people would consider "the dredges of the earth" and the end of life...the Downside. Read this book.

Refreshingly different. 4. Oktober 1999

Von Ein Kunde

I enjoyed the originality of the "Downsider's World". The author has created a unique place to coexist with the "Topsider's World". I found the different perspective of commonplace events and household items of our world sometimes humorous. The story was not great, but refreshingly different.