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Well, I lucked out and found a friend who has a copy of this so now I don't have to languish on my library's "hold" list any longer. This deserves all the accolades it has gotten. I read it in a single day -- I wasn't expecting to -- but that's how absorbing it is (and how fast a read it is.) It is set in a post-apocalypse, dystopian USA. Now each district (12) has to send one boy and one girl to participate in "The Hunger Games" at Capital City. The "game" is a fight to the death -- the winner is lavishly rewarded; the losers...well...die. The "Games" are punishment for the 12 districts to remind them about what happened the last time they rebelled against the capital. None of this matters much -- the characters are all strong and well-written. I bought into the whole premise from the beginning. Interestingly enough, it’s a love story (on multiple levels) and an action story, and instead of being one ghastly death after another, it reads much more like a survival story. The tension ratchets up one notch at a time, and quickly, so by page 17 I was hooked. Hooked and nervous. I hear there is a sequel in the works, which I am really looking forward to.

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This is the first book that made me cry. I was in third grade and my teacher was reading it to us for story time. One day the chapter she had finished reading for class was a cliffhanger, and being that it was Friday I just couldn't wait until Monday to find out what happened. So I went to the library over the weekend, checked out the book, and finished it on my own. Needless to say, by the end I was bawling my eyes out. And I was so confused because I had never had that emotion elicited from me from a book before. On Monday I told my teacher what happened, and she told me that crying over a book is nothing to be ashamed of; on the contrary, it's a sign that it's a great book as the author was able to connect with you on such a deep, emotional level. Despite being absolutely torn apart by the ending, I decided to pick up Rawls' other classic, Summer of the Monkeys. Fortunately, that one ended on a much happier note and thus became one of my all-time favorites. I haven't read Where the Red Fern Grows since, but the impact that it made on me still resonates to this day. I'd love to read it again sometime, but I'm afraid I'll have to do the 'Phoebe Buffay' shortcut and stop reading before the 'bad part' happens again because, honestly, I cannot have my heart ripped into shreds by that little boy from Appalachia and his two loyal dogs again.

2/10/2013 - Moved this book to the abandoned shelf. I was unable/unwilling to finish it. Too much angst. Too little action. Too much internal dialogue.