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Brent Runyon tells us his story in this highly emotional memior. He tells of his multiple attempts at killing himself, but never quite succeeding. Until, he decides to do the unthinkable and burn himself alive due to his possible expulsion from high school. While burning, Brent decides he can't take the flames anymore and tries to put himself out. With burns covering almost every part of his body, the ambulence comes and takes him away. So begins the recovery. Brent must undergo physiological and physical therapy for many months. He begins to think of the trauma of going back to high school with everyone knowing what he did and seeing all of his scars. This book relates to us all at one point in time whenever we felt useless and hopeless in the world. The details Brent gives you are very descriptive and you can connect to the kind of writing style he has. It is a good book for anyone to read. Number of pages: 325

Dynamite, the most compellingly complete "world" I've read in I-can't-remember. The world is brilliant, a gritty and "realistic" medieval-ish place with slowly-introduced fantastical elements -- summers and winters last for years (and even decades), there were once dragons, there are zombies (wights... same thing). Martin's tone is pitch-perfect, too, with vivid descriptions that never overstep into the sentimental. The characters are the weak point, but that's only noticeable because one character (Tyrion the Imp) is fully realized, complex, and the flatness of the others is apparent in contrast. On the other hand, there's a certain amount of "people are the way they are because they're duty-bound and locked into roles," so maybe those characters will flower in later books.