Do yourself a favor and read this book
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Moon was born in a small, Iowa farming town that seems to have overdosed on self-righteousness. Discriminated against for being both illegitimate and disfigured, Moon struggles to make a life for himself in a very cruel world. Still, there are those who are kind to him, and Moon delights in the smallest things, really only asking enough to survive, and always desirous to make his own way. Moon's story is important because it highlights the hypocrisy of the self-important, and causes the reader to be shaken to the core by the injustices heaped upon him. Instead of being depressing, though, the humor and innocence with which Moon must face the world make the book infinitely readable. I was captivated. You will be, too.
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Really. I challenge you to try and put this book down. I am slightly older than the target audience (by about 40 years) and could not put the book down until I had devoured the last page. The author "shows" the reader what is happening instead of telling you, trusting your intelligence to draw the needed conclusions without dictating them. He also writes with heart and honesty. Very satisfying. Prepare to be hooked immediately. Each chapter will spur you on to consume the next. If you wish to avoid the suffering I now found myself in, just go ahead and order book 2 and 3 now too.
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Don't miss reading this book. Is must but!!!
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I picked up this book in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday and did nothing else until I reached the last page. I'm not a veteran or a military strategy buff, I'm just a lawyer in TN. This book is written so well that I was completely captivated before I made it through the Introduction. Read it. You'll be so glad you did.
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There are many reviews above mine to tell you what this book is about. Eloquent, thoughtful. I read several books every week. This is one of the best I have ever read. I would like to recommend it to all. To women especially, may empathize with the powerlessness and struggle to survive in such a repugnant way, to live as a villian because of what you have done to survive and even help others (even though you may do so anonymously). Even heroes can be misinterpreted. I will think of this book with much emotion for a very long time. Read it. You will be glad you did.
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A truly amazing book. From the forward on, I found myself just saying, YES, YES, YES. If you are searching for validation that you can make a change in the world, yours and others around you, this is a must read. Already on my gift list for family and friends.
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What an amazing story about grief and how it affects everyone differently. I never give away the plot but I'll say Emerson and Carter are amazingly written that you KNOW these people, you FEEL these people. I absofreakinglutely loved this book (in case you couldn't tell that lol). I laughed, I cried, I may have even thrown something, in the end I was yelling HELL YEAH!! So please do yourself a favor and grab this, I think everyone could learn something, be it a little or a lot, about your own self from this book.

Christy Hilton-Hall of Late Night Books and Reviews
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Well when I first picked up this ARC I thought that this book would enlighten me about how to lose weight.
That is certainly part of what I gained from reading this book, but more importantly I learned some important lessons about life.
We will get what we surround ourselves with and that our environment can be manipulated to give us what we seek.
You won't get all of this from reading the reviews of this book.  You must read this book.  It is that important.
It effects everything folks and read it to see how it does definitely do that.
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Simply put, this book is a masterpiece. I read the entire book cover to cover in one sitting... I could NOT put it down! I cannot praise this book enough. Do yourself a favor and just buy it. If you don't recommend it to all your friends when you finish reading, I'll be shocked. There's a reason why this book has an almost perfect 5 star rating, and no it's not hype, it's that good, period.
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If you have read this book previously and have come away feeling demoralized and even angered for not getting anything out of it, please try reading it again, this time concentrating on its metaphors, along with foreshadowing, symbolism and description

I noticed some of the other reviewers were put-off by the morally bankrupt characters and how Perrotta conveys compassion for these characters.  I think he is writing objectively, he wasn't trying to make you love or hate these people, they were just who they were.  These are believable characters; they are however, tragically flawed, just like everyone on earth.

This book is not about suburbia.  Yes, the setting is suburbia but don't be fooled into thinking that this is just an expose' of what really goes on behind close doors in suburbia.  This book is about humanity, and people who come to a certain point in their lives where they realize they have left happiness and pleasure behind, they start spending their efforts in trying to pursue better things for themselves and they find nothing but emptiness.  To put it in the words of Sara, who is describing Emma from Madame Bovary (Sara's parallel literary twin), "She's trapped.  She can either accept a life of misery or struggle against it.  She chooses to struggle.....She fails in the end".

This book is fascinating on so many levels.  It is like a puzzle, but not in the way a mystery reads.  It is like a puzzle of human nature.  This book will stay with you for a while, you may feel at first like Perrotta has taken something from you because it has occupied you your hours, thoughts and your mind, but after thinking about it for a while, you will realize he has really given you a little gift, some insight into what is important in life and how things can evolve for the worst if you're not careful.
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This is one of my favorite books. It is in my opinion one of those books that talks to everyone who reads it in a selective and different way. Meaning that the messages that I learn out of the book may not be the same for you. Which is what makes this book so great. If I were to pick it up today it would mean different than the last time that I read it. Because of this particular and special quality, this is a book that you will find yourself revisiting. I highly recommend this book and I bet that after you read the book that you will soon be recommending this book to someone also. Enjoy!
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This book is NOT just a typical romance novel. It offers so much more that it's hard to know where to start. This is a read that gets you so involved that it will outrage you, make you laugh out loud, smile, gasp in disbelief and fall in love with the characters. Over the years, I've read this book so many times, with the story never disapointing me, and loaned it out repeatedly that I finally had to buy another copy. If I ever meet JM, this book is the one I would want her to sign for me. It's amazingly well written, intellectual, complex and satifying. Don't miss out. It's well worth your time.
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FANTASTIC BOOK. It reads like it's your own story. The characters are well developed and it is well written. I read it in 2 days, I couldn't stop. Do yourself a favor and read this book!
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Empathy and a great appreciation for character will be the great determining factor for whether you will like this book or not.  Some people will read about Auri in her broken state of mind and not understand why they should care as it doesn't relate to the greater narrative of the universe in which she exists, which is a perfectly valid way of reading and enjoying stories.  Others (the people this book is for) will, like me, empathize with this girl who was at one point in her life considered "normal" but after some event has become shattered and taken a very unique world view.

 This does not stop her from surviving or being happy and in some ways thriving in her life.  We get to share in the highs and lows of coping and getting on with your life, as well as seeing how people can both bring terror and hope when you its taking everything you have to get by.  Its a really hard book to describe, but I personally feel that if you can understand the feeling of barely holding things together, and can understand the fear and hope that even the tiniest events can make you feel during those times then you will instantly connect with the book in a way that makes you love it.

If you love beautiful writing and can appreciate it as nothing more than an exercise in character development and rhythmic lovely words then you will also like the book.  If this doesn't sound like you then I would recommend staying away.  This is not a niche book, or even something you just have to "get".  Its a book that needed to be written for those of us that its for and nothing more or less than that.
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Do yourself a favour.  This book is a simply wonderful and well-written, heart-warming story.  I could not put it down, dreaded it ending and I mourned when I finished it.
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This book is as insightful as it gets. If you want to know how to live life and enjoy it then read this book. All you need to know is contained within its pages. I recommend reading it over and over to glean new insights and revelations. No matter your religious background this wisdom is for you to make you and the people around you better human beings. Do yourself a favor, read this book and change your life.
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For all baseball fans, this is required reading.
Do yourself a favor and read it. You won't regret it. I promise.