Amor-Trilogie 1: Delirium

Geschrieben von Annina Braunmiller-Jest, Lauren Oliver und Amor-Trilogie

Erzählt von Annina Braunmiller-Jest

Liebe ist tödlich. Nur wusste das früher keiner. Die Leute strebten sogar danach, sich zu verlieben. Heute und in Lenas Welt ist Liebe als Krankheit identifiziert worden und heilbar. Auch Lena steht ein kleiner Eingriff bevor. Danach wird sie normal sein. Sie wird sich nicht verlieben. Niemals. Aber dann lernt sie Alex kennen. Und kann einfach nicht mehr glauben, dass das, was sie in seiner Anwesenheit spürt, schlecht sein soll.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: Silberfisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26. Okt. 2011
• ISBN: 9783844905519

Rezensionen für Amor-Trilogie 1

[liveshipvivacia · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

One of the best books I've read this year. Delirium held my attention the entire time and was so real and vivid, it felt like I had dropped into the book's world. I identified strongly with Lena and feel, overall, like this was a very powerful book and statement about the power of love to both compel people and to destroy them.

[becky_mckenna-1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I really enjoy Lauren Oliver's work and this book was just fascinating! I did have to remind myself that Lena is very young and as such her moods are going to swing, especially given her past, but I still enjoyed her and the relationship she is developing with Alex. The future is a scary place in this dystopian Seattle and Lena's life is being planned out for her, right down to the man she will marry and the number of children she will have. It's the twisted thinking of a controlling and tyrannical government that sets this up for an exciting story. In Lena's world, emotions are called the "sickness" and young adults are given the "cure" before they have a chance to question things. The book is fast paced, well written, and very intriguing! I highly recommend it and will be moving to the next book in the series!

[kmartin802_1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Lena is counting down the days until she is eligible for the cure. Love is a disease. She has seen the ill effects in her family. Her mother committed suicide because she had the disease and the cures didn't work. Her older sister fell in love but, since the cure, she has been fine -- changed but fine. Lena has a great fear of falling in love. Then she meets Alex. Alex should be safe but he faked the scars from the cure. He is part of the Resistance. Gradually, Lena has her eyes opened to the reality of her existence. Good dystopia!

[dairyqueen84 · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

I'm not even finishing this one and it's my teen book club's choice. I found it repetitive and boring. Too much telling and not enough showing. Not enough dialogue and a confusing dystopian world.

[ms_rowse · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Okay, here's what you need to know about me before taking my review to heart: I am an incurable, pathetic, hopeless romantic. It's really quite awful how gooey I get listening to songs or watching movies or reading books. I literally laughed out loud at some of Oliver's descriptions of "the disease of love" because I feel those symptoms frequently. I become horribly attached to people quickly, and as much as I have tried to reform myself, I have given up and just accepted the fact that I am incurable.

So I found the story of Lena and Alex to be completely intoxicating. Minus all the dystopia elements...but a word about that...

I was talking to a friend on Facebook about YA dystopias and she said that she finds their overall premises to be a bit unbelievable. Can't imagine people would be willing to surrender so many of their rights (similar to Matched, The Giver, Hunger Games, et. al.). But I told her that I look at the Patriot Act, or drone strikes, or tapping journalists' phones, or even how all of the nuance has left present-day politics, and these YA dystopias are for us what Fahrenheit 451 was during the 50s.

I doubt anyone could imagine a world of people who didn't read books, and Borders is now out of business. I wonder if, at the dawn of the television age, readers of Bradbury's work could imagine a house almost rules by the television, and now most homes have multiple televisions (if not traditional boxes, they have the interwebz).

So yes, there was lots of ooey-gooey romance in this book, but it was impossible for me to ignore the slight jabs at government overreaching, No Child Left Behind, and the polarization of opinions promulgated by cable news. Great book. Only down side--now I have to read the other two.

[fionaanne · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

The first half is interesting enough but the world-building is terribly thin and without rationale so the tale doesn't hold up. There's never any explanation for why a society would choose to do away with love or what end is served by such a decision.

Its such a forgettable book that it wasn't until I wrote the above review that I realized I had started reading this book 6 years ago and abandoned it due to lack of interest halfway through.

[completely_melanie · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I thought this was a book that I read a long time ago, but once I got started I realized that I had never read this before. I really enjoyed it. That ending was seriously intense and I have to know what happens next!

[larissabookgirl_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Love is violent, dangerous, unpredictable, and painful. Love hurts. Anyone is capable of love, that's the scary part, that this disease can capture anyone at anytime without warning. That's not entirely true, there are warning signs, but once a person is infected with love there is only one cure. The Cure. At eighteen years of age all citizens are given the cure, it's too dangerous to perform the cure before that age, but until that age all are susceptible.Her whole life she has known the dangers of delirium, of love. In the past people would die for love, they'd kill for love, they'd beg, lie, cheat and steal for love. But without love there has been less chaos, less fighting and crime. Yet with only months, days left until her own cure, she is discovering all the things they don't tell you. That without love, without the pain, there is no joy, no happiness and nothing to connect you to those around you. Nothing to connect you to the world.Delirium is a world where love is outlawed; a disease that can be cut out and removed leaving behind a shell of a life, compliant, unquestioning and uncaring. But as one girl begins to question all that she knows, all that she has been taught, she learns the hardest lesson of all. That love is all that matters. An interesting and intriguing story that may take a little too warm up, but once it gets rolling sets up a most compelling beginning to a new series.

[joy_bush-147339 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Awesome book about the future, the USA govt. is completely totalitarian, history rewritten, information censored, education and indoctrination. All the cities walled off with electric barbed wire fences, guards and patrols everywhere.

Its all for one thing: Love. or amor deliria nervosa.

When you turn 18, you get the procedure done that cures you. The govt. pairs you up with someone and tells you how many children to have, what job to have. And the rest of life goes by in a fog.

Lena believes it all, the whole system. But then something happens the summer before her 18th birthday that changes her mind completely.

Awesome read, loved this book! <3

[reader1009-863136 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

teen fiction; dystopian romance. I had to skim through parts of it, but for the most part this was a very readable teen romance that should satisfy people who read these things. It does take a while to get going, so I wouldn't recommend this to reluctant readers or those who crave action action action.

[ssperson_1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

I was really hoping to like this book. I've been into the whole dystopian, government-knows-best thing for a while. However, I think my problem with this book was that the dystopia was so severe, the government so all-powerful, that it didn't leave room for anything to happen other than what happened. That is to say, the characters had no choice but to do what they did. I felt that I knew how it would end about half way through. I was mostly right, and I'm not pleased by that.

I enjoyed the maturing of Lena, as she was forced to realize that the world as described and dictated by the government wasn't necessarily the truth. But, again, that was inevitable given the way the story was told.

It was an interesting look at censorship and government control, and maybe would be satisfactory for a teen reader, who is obviously the target audience. It was a bit "been there, done that" for anyone who has read other dystopian novels.

This is the first book in a series, but I won't be reading further.

[readingbeader · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

HS, series, future utopia, love, disease

What if you could escape all the drama of your teen years? Would you look forward to that? Lena does, she can’t wait for the day when she is cured, when she’s officially grown up and happy. Her life will be planned out and settled. Lots of people would like to live this way-it’s not so bad is it? But where does choice fit in? Love? Love is considered a disease. Something to be afraid of, avoided at all costs.

With excellent writing, Ms. Oliver sucked me straight into the world. I understood Lena’s fear and her desire to leave that behind. A society could easily talk itself into a cure and the isolationism. Changing the scriptures to suit society’s needs with so many church ard it would be to . I missed the time frame--I think Lena must be second generation under this system. I love how she has woven in quotations from the “revised literature” of Shakespeare, Scriptures, and yet included true quotations from classic love poetry. I hate how this book ended. I know it’s a trilogy, but ugh!!!! Cliff hangers are the worst way to end a book. I immediately went out to buy the sequel.

Book of Shhh- “Fundamentals of Society”

Psalm 42- not the one we associate w/ours- as the deer

So interesting how the Bible has been rewritten by this society to suit themselves. (Lamentations Mary 13:1)

“I understood that all the happiest moments of my childhood were a lie. They were wrong and unsafe and illegal. They were freakish. My mother was freakish and I probably inherited the freakishness from her.”

[bookbrig-1 · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

I will recommend this to teens, because I think there are many who will enjoy it. I really, really disliked it. Oliver does an excellent job of getting into a teen girl's head, which I appreciate. However, nothing happens in this book. There's a great deal of worrying, pining, worrying, being in love, worrying, then a chapter of two with some action and then the cliffhanger for the next in the series. I really dislike reading a fairly hefty YA title like this that reads like it is JUST a set up for the next book or books. If this hadn't been for book club, I wouldn't have finished it.

[tehya13 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

An amazing unique dystopian novel. The ending hit me like a truck, I loved it.

[beth_german-590755 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I don't often give a book five stars but in the case of Delirium by Lauren Oliver, it was warranted...especially since I typically do not even care for dystopian stories. Having read Before I Fall, I was already aware of the marvelous way that Mrs. Oliver gives such rich written detail of everything (and if you have read anything by her you will understand what I mean!) This book was addictive, thought-provoking and included such a wonderfully genuine love story that when it ended, I just had to immediately start reading Pandemonium! Looking forward to Requiem coming out in the spring!

[islam_a · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

My heart pounded so louddd!!

[faith_murri · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

This was way better than I thought it would be.

Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.

Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead.
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

-From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales
So, this is for all intents and purposes the same idea and some of the same plot as Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, and yet it somehow utilized that same idea and plot to make something much more profound and frankly more coherent. This book has actual motifs and themes. I adored the writing style and loved all the characters (though Hana was mostly annoying and Alex was sort of a stalker). I liked how the worldbuilding was done. I liked just about everything about this. It surpassed all of my expectations.

[khal_khaleesi · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

Review from my blog The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl.

I really, really, really wanted to like this book. In fact, I wanted to love it, but it just didn't happen. I just couldn't get into it at all no matter how hard I tried. It's gotten some rave reviews so maybe there's just something wrong with me.

Lena is a seventeen year old girl who doesn't challenge anything about her government. She's too scared of the consequences. In a few months, on her 18th birthday, she'll be cured of the disease, the disease of love. She's looking forward to the day she can be cured of love. In fact, she's counting down the days. However, everything changes when she meets the gorgeous Alex, an invalid (another name for someone who is uncured after their 18th birthday). Now she doesn't want to be cured as Alex has opened her eyes to this disease called love. Lena is wondering if love was ever really a disease at all. Lena is putting herself at risk to be with Alex. Will she have her happy ever after or will she be cured?

The world building isn't bad. The story takes place in Portland. The author does a great job of trying to make the reader believe in a world where love is banned. It is quite believable.

I don't think the cover suits the book at all. Lauren Oliver has a habit of just putting faces on the covers of her books. However, I think this is the easy way out. Putting a photo of a face on a book doesn't really tell us anything about the book. I wish Ms. Oliver would consider changing her covers to make them relevant to the actual story.

The title, however, definitely suits the book. Love is seen as a type of delirium. It's banned, and the government wants everyone to believe how love will make you delirious. It's a great title for the book.

I found the pacing to be too slow for my liking. Don't get me wrong, it's written quite nicely, but it's just too slow. I had to force myself to read the book most of the time. I just couldn't get into it, and I found myself not really caring about the characters. There is one good bit, and it's only about two or three chapters towards the middle of the book.

The dialogue is easy to understand and is written beautifully. There are a few swear words however. (Lena drops the f-bomb a couple of times and the s word is used a couple of times as well). The good thing is this book isn't littered with swear words which is nice.

I just couldn't relate to any of the characters. Lena drove me crazy!! She was too much of a goody goody and too scared throughout the book. It especially annoyed me when she couldn't tell the difference if she was crying or sweating. I've never had a problem telling the difference!! And Alex, nothing really annoyed me about him, but I just couldn't feel him if you know what I mean. I basically found that I couldn't give a toss about what happened to Lena and Alex. I did like Hana as she was more of a free spirit and willing to take risks. I liked how full of life she was. She was the only character I kind of cared about, but she wasn't a main character, nor was she mentioned as much as I would've liked her to be.

Throughout most of the book I just felt really bored with the book which made me kind of sad because I really wanted to enjoy this book after reading some reviews about how great this book was. It was a challenge for me to get through the book, save for two or three chapters. This book just didn't really do anything for me, and I won't be reading the rest of the series as I don't really care what happens.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It's just too boring and is lacking something.

Overall, I'd rate Delirium by Lauren Oliver a 2.5 out of a 5.

[librarycin · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Lena’s mom and dad died when she was young, so Lena was raised by her aunt. Lena’s 18th birthday is coming up soon, and it will be such a relief to be able to have the surgery done – the cure! – to prevent the sickness “amor deliria nervosa” (aka love). Everyone gets the cure on their 18th birthday. She’ll be matched with someone to marry and her life will be perfect. But, before her birthday (and the surgery) arrives, she meets Alex…I really liked this. It seems an odd premise, but I went with it, and quite enjoyed it. I liked Lena’s best friend, Hana, and her young cousin(?), Grace, although a bit more interaction with Grace might have been nice. Maybe one of the upcoming books in the series will have more about her? I will definitely be continuing.

[winterdragon-1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I only just finished this book earlier this year, after its been on my stack of books to read for the past two years or so and I wish I had read it sooner. I saw the book a couple of times in the bookstore and I finally bought it because the concept sounded interesting. The book sucked me in and I finished it in 3 days (I'm a college student and had school or I would have stayed up all night to finish). With the Hunger Games and the Divergent series, dystopian novels have been gaining popularity and with Delirium being a part of the genre, while sounding interesting, I thought would be an easy, distracting, read when I needed a break from all the school work. I was wrong this book is fantastic!!!

The world that Lena lives in, a world without love, was a believable world. The excerpts from the beginning of each chapter from the Book of Shhh helped in making the world seem more real. The first book in the series did a great job of introducing us to this world and showing the reader how much not having love can destroy us. With Lena she is about to have the surgery to remove the disease of love -- the Deliria Nervosa -- but she ends up falling in love with a boy named Alex. Lauren Oliver writes about a love story between two teenagers, and thankfully, it's not cheesy either. But my favorite part about the whole not having love is how it also effects the family. Lena's mom committed suicide because she couldn't have love which resulted in Lena having to be raised my her aunt and uncle. Throughout the novel, while Lena's family thinks what they are doing is right, they are not doing it out of love but out of what the government tells them is right. Don't even get me started on the ending, all I can say is amazing cliff hanger!!!

4/5

[chaoticbooklover · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Let me just say YA Dystopia is fast becoming my favorite genre to read. I had previously read a couple of reviews of Delirium, and was a little skeptical at first, although the reviews were of course glowing. I read the first couple of chapters and was hooked.
Lena is so easy to connect to for me. Her friendship with Hana, and her upset over her mother's "death" are easily identifiable. Delirium introduces us to a world where LOVE is a disease, and at a certain age everyone must have a procedure to be "cured". The book was a little slow for me, but I couldn't give up on it, once Alex; in all his gloriousness was introduced I knew that i was in for an epic love story.
I teared up when I learned that he was technically an "invalid" and when Lena ran from him I was heartbroken. I had to keep reading to find out if she went looking for him. The chapter where she went searching for him was a nail bitter for me, until she found him, and then of course I was in love with him even more from that moment on.
When Lena finds out that her mother may be alive, I was almost as nervous as her, that is until they arrive at the "Crypts". I just knew that something was wrong. But hopefully there is a happy ending with that story.
After Lena is busted and almost forced to have the procedure to cure her of Amor Deliria Nervousa ( what they call the disease love), I was praying and screaming at the book for Alex to show up and rescue her.
The ending of the book had me crying, actually I was crying throughout the last two chapters. I am hoping that the next book of this projected trilogy is out soon, and that Alex will be in the next one.
Overall, I loved the book, the characters and Lauren Oliver's writing style. This is one book that I will pick up often.

[sraelling · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Another apocalyptic story. This time, however, the U.S. has been divided into the Wilds and the Civilized places. Invalids (say in-VAL-ids) because everyone has a validation number. Love is also a disease and everyone receives the Cure at 18. Lena can hardly wait for her procedure. But by the end, she refuses to become another unfeeling, living in a trance member of the population in Portland, ME. Quick read, lovely descriptions of earl y love (not sexually explicit). Want to read the other parts if the trilogy.

[christinegrabowski · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

As an adult, I enjoyed this book even though it is meant for teens. It was an interesting and engaging plot with a lot of tension. I also found Lena to be a well-developed and relatable protagonist. There was a romantic subplot that I found to be appropriate for my 12 year old. I would definitely read more in the series.

[capriciousreader · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Wow. Just.... wow. Amazing. Breathtaking. When is the next one coming out? I don't think I can wait.

[edensteffey · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

i loved this book. i did not wantto read itand put off doing so fora long time. I didn't see how a society that revoves around controlling love would seem realistic, but it works.

[annhepburn · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Perhaps the best description of the physical sensation of falling in love that I've ever read. What a great book.

[charlotte1162 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Addictive, slightly predictable but in a good way! Can't wait to start the next one.

[lissabeth21 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This was a really well done novel. I enjoyed the very realistic, alternate current history setting. I came to care for the characters (which is crucial to me) and there were enough cliffhangers to entice me to read the rest of the trilogy... sometime.

[lisarector · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

This book was awesome. I love the idea of love as a disease, and the way the author developed the idea was very interesting. I was never bored with the story. I can't wait to see how the next one turns out because Oliver certainly left you in the middle of the story.

[banoczi_henrietta · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

i thought it was gonna be good and interesting and whatnot but it wasn't it was confusing and the girl was annoying