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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

Patrick Ness

Start date: November 22, 2014

Finish date: December 1, 2014

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Jan 28, 2012 Trisha rated it it was amazing

Very rarely do I love and HATE a book as much as I do this one. But, the fact that I hate it is the reason I love it.

The development of the world and the cast of characters was just amazing. It was slow and steady, never giving away enough about someone to let you know who they were.

And I enjoyed the constant reminders that everyone could hear what he was thinking. The reminder as people responded to his thoughts with words, or when he heard someone's Noise and had his own thoughts about it.

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Jan 10, 2017 Gabriela rated it it was amazing

Shelves: dystopia, world-book-night-2013, readtheworld

What a chaotically interesting dystopia.

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Oct 21, 2012 Trisha rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, ya

A very interesting, sci-fi plotline about humans colonizing on another planet and hearing the constant thoughts of everyone around them. The constant "Noise" literally drives people insane, the never ending barrage of thoughts, feelings, dreams, images, 24/7. The story is told from the perspective of a 12 year old boy who tries to escape from his settlement after finding out that they were harboring a horrible secret, only to find that hiding is damn near impossible when the enemy can hear your ...more

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Dec 02, 2013 Snuffles rated it did not like it

Shelves: scifi-fantasy-horror, unfinished, 2016

This book still haunts me years after reading it. It needs serious trigger warnings and I wish there was such a thing on Goodreads because I never would have touched it with a ten foot pole had I known what was going to happen or the way it was going to happen. The overwhelming amount of positive ratings seriously baffles me.

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Dec 08, 2011 Dom marked it as couldn-t-finish

DNF for now. I've had this book sitting on my shelf unread for years. I FINALLY picked it up, but I'm not really enjoying the experience. I don't have a single bad thing to say about it, I just think it may not suit my particular tastes. May try again later. ...more

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