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    <![CDATA[Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.<br/><br/>But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets.<br/><br/>Or are there?<br/><br/>Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.<br/><br/>Which is impossible.<br/><br/>Prentisstown has been lying to him.<br/><br/>And now he's going to have to run...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never heard of Patrick Ness or &quot;Chaos Walking&quot; trilogy before. Luckily for me, &quot;The Knife of Letting Go&quot; was a November pick of one of my YA book groups. <br/><br/>&quot;The Knife of Never Letting Go&quot; is one of those &quot;boy&quot; books - there is a lot of action, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75813399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big fan of dystopic fiction, and The Knife of Never Letting Go is one of the most compelling pieces of dystopia I have read in awhile.  <br/><br/>Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.  His birthday is coming, when he will take his place among the men of his community: a community of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55952368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.<br/><br/>But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets.<br/><br/>Or are there?<br/><br/>Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.<br/><br/>Which is impossible.<br/><br/>Prentisstown has been lying to him.<br/><br/>And now he's going to have to run...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ness, Patrick. 2008. The Knife Of Never Letting Go.<br/><br/>The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything.<br/><br/>This book perhaps has one of the best first lines I've encountered recently. Unfortunately, at least as I see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31137154">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I have to wait for a sequel. Fortunately, in the meantime, I can look forward to Brilliance's audio version. I can't wait to see what they do with the NOISE of the men. It should make for a very interesting recording. I think Todd should hook up with the heroine of Cashore's GRACELIN...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29569214">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Knife of Never Letting Go demonstrates my qualms with male authors perfectly. The story as a whole was a good one, and rather suspenseful to boot, but as is usually is the case with books written by male authors, the characters never became alive for me.<br/><br/>The story is narrated by Todd ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77354722">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Knife of Never Letting Go is seriously amazing! The book is crazy and it is dark. I love the world-building happening here. The story centers around Todd Hewitt, the last boy in Prentisstown. The last boy because there are no women left in Prentisstown—not since the war with the spackle (one of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25315310">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.<br/><br/>But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets.<br/><br/>Or are there?<br/><br/>Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.<br/><br/>Which is impossible.<br/><br/>Prentisstown has been lying to him.<br/><br/>And now he's going to have to run...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heart pounding suspense that is unrelenting from the start kept me flying through this book.  I knew this was the start of a series, yet the cliffhanger ending left me gasping.  This is a hanging from your fingernails cliffhanger ending!  WOW!<br/><br/>Set on a world settled by colonists seeking a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24540823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.<br/><br/>But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are no secrets.<br/><br/>Or are there?<br/><br/>Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.<br/><br/>Which is impossible.<br/><br/>Prentisstown has been lying to him.<br/><br/>And now he's going to have to run...]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a fair amount of SF (and in that genre, of course, are a fair number of dystopian society books). I think it's rare to read a YA SF of any stripe, but with this one, Ness appears to know exactly what he's doing and how to situate his book within the sweep of dystopian lit, and the situation i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33922645">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Todd Hewitt is almost 13, the age a boy becomes a man on a planet devastated by a war with aliens that infected all the survivors with something called Noise causing their thoughts to be broadcast. Other effects included animals being infected causing them to talk and broadcast noise and the end of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36754839">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book to the skies, to the stars, to the sea. I love it like crazy craziness. I love it like PIE. <br/><br/>That said, I am horribly traumatized by it. <br/><br/>I highly recommend it to everyone. I also highly recommend that you hold off reading it until the next book comes out so yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41386416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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