The Game by Monica Hughes
This was actually a book I got when
Borders was going out of business. I paid exactly three dollars for it. The
description on the back made it seem a bit like “The Hunger Games” and I had
just finished Catching Fire at the time and wanted to continue reading
dystopias. I started looking up information online about “The Game” and found
that this book was one of the ones that English teachers force their high
school students to read for a grade and therefore wasn’t widely appreciated.
All I read were pretty shitty reviews of it but they were all done by some snot
nosed sophomore who was just pissed that they had to pull themselves away from
their porn or online video games to actually do something educational. So I
decided that I would read the book and decide for myself how I felt about it.
Snot
nosed high school students SUCK at book recommendations, I absolutely adored
this book and attempted to get anyone who told me that they liked “The Hunger
Games” to read it. Now “The Game” has nothing to do with a fight to the death.
This book is set in a future where most jobs are primarily taken by robots.
When you leave high school you are transported to the place where you will be
living the rest of your life. You have to score extremely high in order to get
a job that ISN’T already taken by a robot. If you don’t get a job, you get
taken to some dump of a town and have to fend for yourself. The government
grants you a kind of allowance but it isn’t much.
The
‘game’ that they speak of is a psychological thing. It’s all in your mind. If
you are chosen to be in the game it’s the highest honor ever.
I don’t
want to reveal much more and risk giving things away, but the book is awesome
and I would suggest it to any dystopia lover. And if you look up reviews of
books like I do, don’t trust any that were done by some little weasel high
school student. They are overly biased and poorly written.
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