Title: Not Appropriate for Children
Review: My teacher assigned this book in the 6th grade and we read it as a class. I can't think of a worse book to give to 11-year-olds. It's depraved and sadistic. It bothered me and haunted me for years, and I still think any middle school teacher who would assign this has seriously questionable judgment. The older I get the more I realize what a perverse assignment it was. There are plenty of other books that can teach ethics, if that's what it's trying to do, in a less sensationalistic and much more realistic, nuanced and interesting way. If I recommended this book to anyone, it would be to older teens or adults who like thrillers and pulp, or to people who like hunting. Literature it's not.
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