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

Patrick Ness

Why we're reading this: Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never…more
[close] Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee -- whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not -- stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden -- a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?

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Oct 21, 2012 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, young-adult, dystopian-speculative-fiction, coming-of-age

I'm going to call this one more of a crossover novel rather a YA novel. There are hardly any parts of this YA other than our young protagonists. This is the story as told through the eyes of Todd Hewitt. A boy on the verge of becoming a man in a town called Prentisstown, on a planet called the new world. This town is unique in it has no women and the men can all hear one another's thoughts which are referred to as the Noise. This began when they arrived to new world years ago. Two things, the no ...more

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Dec 31, 2008 Lucy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sciencefiction, teen

I love this book to the skies, to the stars, to the sea. I love it like crazy craziness. I love it like PIE.

That said, I am horribly traumatized by it.

I highly recommend it to everyone. I also highly recommend that you hold off reading it until the next book comes out so you're not left with a gut-punch of a cliffhanger like I am. ...more

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Dec 09, 2011 Cindywho rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, fantasy-sf, ya

Phew - I heard this one was violent, but man, poor Todd never gets a break. I liked the effects the audiobook was able to produce for the noise of the men. I'd heard that the reader yelled a little too much, but Todd was pretty excitable. It was an fast-paced and intriguing story of a planet colonization gone crazy when something about the place lets everyone hear the thoughts of men and beasts. The unfettered mind of an adolescent boy is a little crazy-making. My favorite part was the soothing ...more

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