Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush. He's strong and silent...and dead.
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Aug 24, 2009
Emma
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In its Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separate schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. The schools for whites were often superior to their counterparts for black students and consequently the separate schools offered very different educational opportunities. This ruling was key to the civil rights movement and efforts to end segregation.
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Aug 24, 2009
Joe
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Oh, my. How can I put this lightly?
Generation Dead is Twilight, but with zombies instead of vampires. And it's just as terrible.
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Meet Phoebe. She's a goth girl! (How 1999!) Phoebe listens to so many cool bands, like This Mortal Coil and Bronx Casket Company. We know this because author Daniel Waters assures us every fifteen pages that he is an expert on his goth rock. Phoebe also writes poetry! It's really, really terrible poetry, too!
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Generation Dead is Twilight, but with zombies instead of vampires. And it's just as terrible.
To wit:
Meet Phoebe. She's a goth girl! (How 1999!) Phoebe listens to so many cool bands, like This Mortal Coil and Bronx Casket Company. We know this because author Daniel Waters assures us every fifteen pages that he is an expert on his goth rock. Phoebe also writes poetry! It's really, really terrible poetry, too!
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Mar 14, 2010
Thomas
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Phoebe Kendall is your typical goth girl - she wears dark clothes, applies pale makeup, and paints her nails black. What sets her apart from the crowd is that she is in love with a dead boy, named Tommy Williams. All around the nation dead teenagers have been rising from their graves and practically rebooting their souls. They are also called zombies, living impaired, differently biotic, etc. Although most of them have to wait a few minutes before forming a sentence, a special few can function a
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Aug 24, 2009
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Feb 27, 2011
You’ve heard of Generation "X" and Generation "Y." Get ready for Generation Dead. Generation Dead being known for its, well, undead. Science can’t explain it, and no one really knows why it happens, but American teenagers are coming back to life. Known to the living as differently biotic or the living impaired. These zombie teenagers try to "live" their undead lives, but as with any group of people that vary from the norm, there are always prejudices.
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Aug 24, 2009
Rachael
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Get ready for the next sensation: waking up after you’ve died.
It started with one strange case, and now it’s happening to more and more American teens. But having a second chance doesn’t make living, or whatever their existence is called, any easier for these “living impaired” or “differently biotic” teens. They face much discrimination, fear, and hatred, and they don’t have any legal rights either. That means anyone who hates them enough can destroy them – and the differently bioti More...
It started with one strange case, and now it’s happening to more and more American teens. But having a second chance doesn’t make living, or whatever their existence is called, any easier for these “living impaired” or “differently biotic” teens. They face much discrimination, fear, and hatred, and they don’t have any legal rights either. That means anyone who hates them enough can destroy them – and the differently bioti More...
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Aug 24, 2009
amber
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2.5 - I really wanted to like this book. YA, zombies, cool cover - how could I not love it? I expected a funny story judging by all of the reviews and I think that is where the let down happened. This book is quite serious. It's really about intolerance and how people hate. There is startling zombie violence throughout the book. There are funny parts but overall this is not a lighthearted read. This is not a bad book but it wasn't what I was expecting. After the abrupt ending, I'm left feeling s
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Sep 20, 2009
Susan
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The concept behind Generation Dead is incredibly clever and executed well by Daniel Waters. I was expecting a book about teenage zombies - what I didn't expect was a well-written and complex young adult novel dealing with the universal themes of discrimination and acceptance. Daniel Waters blew me away with this fantastic debut!
The compelling charactersleapt shuffled off the page and into my heart. Waters never stopped developing each of his characters - they constantly evolved thro
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Nov 29, 2011
Angela
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This isn't a bad read. It's certainly not spectacular either though. I've read reviews where they have compared this novel with 'Twilight' but with zombies instead of vampires; it's not, it's better written than that, and nowhere near as annoying or cringe-worthy.
The concept of the novel was good - I'm a big zombie fan and this is the first time I've read anything where the undead do not go shuffling around eating brains, but instead, try to incorporate themselves into living society More...
The concept of the novel was good - I'm a big zombie fan and this is the first time I've read anything where the undead do not go shuffling around eating brains, but instead, try to incorporate themselves into living society More...
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Aug 24, 2009
Steph Su
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They don't like to be called zombies. Or dead heads, or worm food, or whatever pejorative terms the "creative" people of the world are coming up with. They're differently biotic: American teens literally rising from the dead into some semblance of their former selves. Everyone is terrified of them. What are they, and why have they come back from the dead?
High school junior Phoebe doesn't share the world's qualms. In fact, she just might have a crush on Tommy Williams, a qui More...
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Aug 24, 2009
Abby
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More like 2.5 stars, I think. I expected a bit more from this zombie teen novel -- like, for instance, brain-eating. Moaning. Slowly losing limbs. Things that zombies normally do. The teen zombies in this book aren't like that -- in fact, if you don't want to risk offense, you probably shouldn't call them zombies. The politically correct term is "living impaired." Or "differently biotic."
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Aug 24, 2009
Kelly
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To summarize Generation Dead, by Daniel Waters in one word- Clever! Daniel Waters resides in Connecticut with his family. Generation Dead is his first young adult novel.
All over the country an unusual phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die are not staying dead. Isolated strictly to the United States and to teenagers, these young adults are labeled differently bionic or living impaired. All they are trying to do is fit into a society that doesn’t want them and doesn’t understand. T More...
All over the country an unusual phenomenon is happening. Some teenagers who die are not staying dead. Isolated strictly to the United States and to teenagers, these young adults are labeled differently bionic or living impaired. All they are trying to do is fit into a society that doesn’t want them and doesn’t understand. T More...
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May 14, 2008
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You've heard of Generation "X" and Generation "Y." Get ready for Generation Dead -- Generation Dead being known for its, well, undead. Science can't explain it, and no one really knows why it happens, but American teenagers are coming back to life. Known to the living as differently biotic or the living impaired, these zombie teenagers try to "live" their undead lives, but as with any group of people that v More...
You've heard of Generation "X" and Generation "Y." Get ready for Generation Dead -- Generation Dead being known for its, well, undead. Science can't explain it, and no one really knows why it happens, but American teenagers are coming back to life. Known to the living as differently biotic or the living impaired, these zombie teenagers try to "live" their undead lives, but as with any group of people that v More...
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Aug 24, 2009
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A strange phenomenon is happening across the entire country. Some teenagers are coming back from the dead. While some may think this is great, a second chance at life, others aren’t all that happy about it. Most of these “differently biotic” move extremely slowly and talk just as slow. They are all trying to fit back in with the world they once knew, but with a society filled with people who don’t want to accept them, it can be painstakingly hard.
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Aug 24, 2009
Karin
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Generation Dead is Daniel Water’s first novel and he did a bang up job! He captured the voices of teenagers who are navigating their way through the trials and tribulations of high school. The only difference between a regular high school and the high school in this book is that for some reason, and no one knows why - not even the scientists, SOME teenagers that die aren’t staying dead. They are referred to as “living impaired” or “differently biotic.”
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Aug 24, 2009
Lindsey
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Update - I just read that the sequel, "Kiss of Life", is coming out in May. Yay!
The setting of this book is present day, except that American teenagers have started to come back from the dead. Not all teenagers come back, and experts aren't sure what's causing this phenomenon. Fast food? Too much video games? Anyway, these "living impaired" students are re-entering school, but facing a lot of prejudice. They freak people out. No one socializes with them. O More...
The setting of this book is present day, except that American teenagers have started to come back from the dead. Not all teenagers come back, and experts aren't sure what's causing this phenomenon. Fast food? Too much video games? Anyway, these "living impaired" students are re-entering school, but facing a lot of prejudice. They freak people out. No one socializes with them. O More...
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Sep 06, 2010
Dawn
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This book was different than I expected it to be. It was more than I expected. Much more. Rather than being a humorous, kitschy book about teenage zombies, Generation Dead is a book about being different. More than that, it's a book about identity, relationship, love, and hate -- a book about being. And, if you want to learn something about yourself, it's well worth reading!
Aug 24, 2009
Kristen
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This book was interesting.. basically these teenagers are dying and then coming back to life. They're trying to live normal lives and some even attend high school. There are a lot of prejudice against these "DB" - differently biotic - kids and they have no rights so their murders (decapitations, burnings, etc) go unpunished. Enter Phoebe - a goth girl who has a heavy interest in a DB boy who attends her school. Other situations entail and overall, I enjoyed the book, but there was not
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Jan 03, 2012
Busy
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Phoebe and Adam have been best friends since they were kids, but if you go to Oakvale High with them you might not know it. Adam's on the football team and dates cheerleaders while Goth-girl Phoebe hangs out with her pink-haired friend Margi. But Adam took karate over the summer and he's matured a great deal, so much in fact that he's decided he's going to start spending time with Phoebe more publically and he's going to tell her that he has more than just friendly feelings for her. There's only
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Dec 27, 2011
Fangs for the Fantasy
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Generation Dead by Daniel Waters was recommended to us by one of our readers, and after enduring this book, I have no idea what this person was thinking. As you may have guessed by the title, Generation Dead is a zombie story. In the movies the zombie is usually the antagonist, who spends most of its time trying to eat living humans; however, in Generation Dead, the zombies are trying to integrate into society. At this point the only zombies are teenagers, who come back after dying. Science
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Oct 25, 2011
"Niños y niñas, jóvenes y jóvenas, atención a las últimas noticias del mundo: todo aquel que viva en los Estados Unidos de América, no supere la mayoría de edad y muera en circunstancias no demasiado desastrosas (quemarse hasta convertirse en polvo no vale), no tendrá por qué temer por su vida, porque USA vuelve a ser pionera en otro fenómeno más, la inmortalidad. Más o menos. Hoy, en EEUU y en el imaginario de Daniel Waters, el mundo baila al ritmo zombi: los no-adultos mueren, pero só
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Jan 02, 2010
Lara
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So this book turned out quite differently to what I had expected. The blurb made it look like it was going to be all about the romance between a zombie and a human, and while that was definitely still present, the novel had a much wider scope.
The actual story revolves mostly around the prejudice and discrimination the "living impaired" are subjected to by the still living humans. As a result of the strong anti-racism (or "anti-bioist" as it calls it) themes in this More...
The actual story revolves mostly around the prejudice and discrimination the "living impaired" are subjected to by the still living humans. As a result of the strong anti-racism (or "anti-bioist" as it calls it) themes in this More...
Jan 17, 2012
Homewood Public Library
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American teenagers have begun rising from the grave soon after their deaths. Whether suicide, car accident, or worse, the teens return to their families after their funerals. But not all families want them back. Some of the undead are abandoned by all who once loved them, shunned by their community and the nation as a whole. But there are so many, and more are rising by the day. Accommodations are being made, laws are being debated, but until legislation is passed, and until people start accepti
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Jan 16, 2012
Emily
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The first 1/2 of the book was about a 2 star rating, the next quarter went down to 1 stars and by the end I was like "oh em gee, I'm only 30 pages from the end, so I am going to finish it, but I'm pretty sure I don't even want to know how this book ends."
The basic premise is: "All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they a More...
The basic premise is: "All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they a More...
Dec 22, 2011
Anna
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In a lot of ways, the undead could just as easily have been vampires as zombies, and we all know YA vampire love stories are everywhere right now. The zombies here don't hurt people or eat brains. They don't decompose, and they have no need for eat or sleep. They're pale-skinned, misunderstood, ageless, and the higher-functioning zombies are described as beautiful. So why zombies instead of vampires? I'm not actually sure. Really, nothing is done with them that couldn't have been done if these
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Dec 21, 2011
I <3 Tommy, but at the end why didn't he try to save Phoebe from pete? He just sat there like he couldn't move which I know he could have moved pretty fast because he was starting to be able to run and talk like the tradionally biotic people. And if Tommy just wanted to kiss any living girl to "make him human" again he truly has no heart all beating or not. Instead Adam came to her rescue and gave his life to save her's. When Adam was dying I was crying histerically, and I didn;t th
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Sep 22, 2011
Katie
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Alright, so this is definitely a case of do not judge a book by its cover. As my second foray into zombie-love-stories, I looked at this book and was expecting a sappy twilight-esque high school drama where a goth chick falls for a zombie boy and they are edgy and tragically romantic together. WRONG!
First of all, the goth girl (who I kind of expected to be obnoxiously dark and, well, tragic) turns out to be a fairly normal girl who just happens to like gothy music and apparently lo More...
First of all, the goth girl (who I kind of expected to be obnoxiously dark and, well, tragic) turns out to be a fairly normal girl who just happens to like gothy music and apparently lo More...
Jul 29, 2011
Wow, did this book catch me off guard. I picked it up thinking it would be a light-hearted zombie book. It started off a little too melodramatic even for my taste. But, about halfway through I noticed the writing started to become more sophisticated. The author acknowledged that several of his characters were intelligent, aware teenagers. The next thing I know this book has turned into a pretty well written parable and at times somewhat satirical book about bigotry. Which I would say best equate
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Jul 26, 2011
Jessie
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Phoebe a semi goth girl is on the frontlines of a new phenomena sweeping the nation... dead teenagers coming back to life. That's right due to (Scientists haven't figured out but they think it has to do with preservatives in food) American teenagers are rising from the dead as zombies, going back to school, hanging out, and even trying out for the football team.
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You would assume that friends and parents alike would be happy that their children and family members get a second shot right? Wr More...
Jul 16, 2011
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