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My perception of Four doesn't match up with Tris's perception of Four and that's really confusing.

Like she thinks he's kind of a unfeeling jerk or something and I think he's the nicest guy ever...I'm like, is that supposed to be because she's from a selfless faction and everyone's a jerk by comparison...or do I just date assholes? WHICH IS IT?

Did this just take a BDSMy turn? What the fuck?

Ohhhh shit. This just got interesting.

Jesus, this really is a metaphor for being a teenager. Omg, she's becoming a popular kid! She's moving away from the control of her parents and becoming her own person! It makes so much more sense if you see it that way, rather than try to figure out why on earth the world would ever work the way it does in this book.

She's kind of like Oliva Dunham, but less likable.

I want to go home and finish reading this book and I don't know why. I think I'm curious to learn about this world she's created even though I have really low expectations and I fully expect to be disappointed. We'll see. It might get a lot better.

I'm mad the protagonist chose Dauntless because I totally would have choose Amity and I want to know what's going on in that camp. Like dude, you joined a military of punks. That's only half awesome. Also, what's up with the nerds being jerks?

I don't think I like the people who claim this is better than the hunger games. Listen, Suzanne Collins might be terrible at things like sentences and words, but she's a genius. This doesn't feel like genius so far. This feels like an idea for a story I might have had when I was 14. It also feels like a BLATANT rip off some of the concepts in 1984. Why don't you join the ministry of grow a pair? Yeah. Now what? Punk.

This is frustrating because I'm reading this in Kindle format on my laptop and I have no real way to figure out what page I'm on. Stupid kindle.

Yeah, so this story seems to make much more sense if you take it as a metaphor. There's nothing realistic about the way this society is set up, and they don't offer you any explanation for it, BUT this is kind of what being a teenager in America FEELS like.