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Uglies was great with a really unique "dystopia" the second one was not quite as good, and the third wasn't as good as athe second. but still a great series.

Couldn't put this book down. I just couldn't tell how it was going to end. Parts of the book seemed simplistic, but all in all it was mostly just heartbreaking.

This book is heartbreaking, disturbing, amazing, and should be mandatory reading. Despite the content, I read this book in 2-3 sittings. I don't know what more to say about it. The book opens in his easy childhood, and as WW2 starts, a sense of dread builds as the war rages on, even though as a child he and his family did not know of the atrocities beyond their borders. His descriptions of life within the death camps will leave anybody speechless and often left me just staring at the book. Then as the war draws to an end, the book takes the rider on an emotional rollercoaster as you gain faith in him finally finding peace, before various circumstances take it away. I could not stop reading through this part of the book, and felt like I was holding my breath through full chapters. This book is a difficult book to read, but Max Eisen's powerful writing can help carry you through, and grant you a new view of this horrific part of the world's history.

Whether or not you get to actually do a 5-hour work day, this book inspired me to change the way I approach work. It is so easy to get into the idea of a 9-5 mandatory drudgery, but since reading this book, I requested a work schedule change to 8:00-4:00, but also just approach work differently. I don't want to leave work having had a bad, unproductive day, so I've made changes not only in when I work, but how I work. Definitely worth the read.