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Amped by Daniel H. Wilson

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Jun 10, 12

bookshelves: read-in-2012-06-june, dystopias, epilepsy, best-of-2012, best-nonseries-fiction
Read from June 08 to 10, 2012

This dystopian novel made me angry, and that's a good thing. It made me angry because it was so believable. This book is about a world where a treatment/cure for conditions like epilepsy, ADHD, autism, blindness, missing limbs, etc. has been created. This treatment/cure is a computer chip that is put into the patient's brain. But this chip not only makes the patient better, it makes them BETTER. By this I mean they can now do things normal humans cannot, they are super-human, they are amplified humans, they are amped. They are smarter, faster, and stronger. And this scares the normal humans. And fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. And the normal humans, Regs, start to treat the amplified people, known as Amps, as not just sub-human but non-human. The Amps lose all their rights and privileges as citizens of the United States because they are no longer citizens, they are nothing. They are forced to leave their homes and move into internment camps to keep them contained, just like Japanese-Americans were made to do during World War II. Politics lead to more violence and violence leads to more politics. I don't want to say more for fear of ruining the rest of the story, but this is a must read dystopia, one of the best I have read. Read it to find out how things end up for the Amps. And if you like this one, check out When She Woke by Hillary Jordan and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, two other great dystopians published recently.

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Reading Progress

06/08/2012 page 121
42.0%

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Kelly Maybedog Hawkins Added to my list!


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Joseph Cool! Let me know what you think when you finish it.


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