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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of those types of books that keep you on the edge of your seat. Imagine thinking you're normal, and like everyone else, but coming to find out, you are FAR from normal. Or at least not a normal HUMAN being. Robert had to find out the hard way that he was not normal at all when he w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22313801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I HATE THIS BOOK. But because it has the worse ending ever!!! I didn't get to find anything out about Ryan or Robert!!!! What kind of ending is that?!?! Aside from that, I thought it was a good book and it left me hanging 'till the last few pages. I would not reccommend this book because it will lea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39485427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	In this book, the protagonist, Robert who is a lonely orphan is having a difficult time living with different foster parents and finding out his true identities.  Unfortunately, one day, he goes to the hospital with stomachache for routine exam.  And yet, he is been told that his insides are not hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43169850">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Being by Kevin Brooks was suspense filled book that revolved around your average teenage boy. The story started with Robert Smith waiting for his medical examination at the hospital. Although he had been sedated during his examination, he remained conscious and overheard a conversation between his d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79408636">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want an honest, thought over opinion, I didn’t really care for this book. I believed that it was going to turn out to be one of my all time favorites. But, in the end I was proved wrong. This book was going smoothly from the beginning, with the suspense, and drama, in the end these qualitie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51147417">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very different and thought provoking.  <br/>Enjoyable, but some things were either confusing, or seemed to leave you hanging still wondering.  <br/>The main character is extremely deep and his search for whats inside himself as well as where he can be safe.  As the story progresses other strong ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74431767">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't agree more with the reviewers who complain about the unsatisfactory conclusion of this novel. <br/><br/>Robert and Eddi are compelling characters and Brooks' ability to write a taut thriller is laudable, but the novel as a whole seems to consist of two poorly knit genres. Readers gallop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39626991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith's throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons' shocked comments: &quot;What the hell is that?&quot;    &quot;It's me,&quot; Robert thinks, &quot;and I've got to get out of here.&quot; Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan's violent odyssey to find out exactly who--exactly what--he is.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good sci-fi thriller by a British author.  I knocked it down a star because I thought Brooks used too many one word sentences, which diluted the effect those carry in writing.  Plus, I was unsatisfied with the ending; his physical peculiarities were never explained, and the reader is left to wonder ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57886499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book had many interesting ideas and i enjoyed reading it, but i do not like how this author writes. he has good ideas, but his writing skills are sereously lacking. this book was about a boy named robert who goes for an endoscopy and finds that he is infact not human. actually, you never find o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77762617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kevyn Lee									12.23.2008<br/>									            Writing Arts 904<br/><br/><u>Being<u><br/>Kevin Brooks<br/>Push/Scholastic<br/>Fiction<br/>Hardcover: 0439899737<br/>Paperback: 9780439903424<br/>336 pages<br/><br/><br/>Imagine spending months creating new identities for yourself, hiding f...</u></u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40676889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I were ever to write a book, I think that I would leave the ending open-ended, because it would make the reader think and imagine what might have happened. However, that doesn't mean I have to like it when a book does that to me. Three fourths of the book was a mystery in the making; a boy named ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35496501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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