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Title: Just awful
Review: My son read this book as a summer book report project, and for fun I read it as well. The best I can say is that it at least gave me an opportunity to discuss politics with him. The pro-environmental / anti-corporate slant is a bit heavy handed and quite trite. The expository repitition is mind-numbing, and the characters act most unrealistically (but very conveniently for the message). Apart from the environmentalism, which I usually don't mind, the author plays with gender roles a bit too enthusiastically for my taste. Even my son wondered why the protagonist was so infatuated with this mysterious "running boy". Bizarre at best, bad propaganda at worst.
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