listened to audio cd.
2008 Candlewick
479 pgs.
YA SciFi/Dystopia
Finished 9-7-15
Goodreads rating: 3.95
My rating: Really didn't like it at all - too upper-level stressful, no down time....
Setting: a small planet similar to earth in a faraway place
First line/s: "The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't go nothing much to say. About anything."
My comments: I've waited a few days to see if my original opinion abated a bit - but it's only grown stronger. I love the premise of this book, but I was put off by the stress-level and ugliness. I listened to it - and the narrator did a wonderful job of depicting what Todd felt, saw, heard -- but it was incredibly overwhelming to me, my stomach and jaws were clenched, I dreaded returning to it and almost didn't finish it. I didn't realize it was the first in a series, so was utterly disappointed at the so-called end. So-- Mr. Ness did a grand job in eliciting feeling and emotion, but reading for me is pleasure and I found not even the tiniest pleasure in the reading of this book. I've read others' reviews and I'm really glad that it's been enjoyed by so many!
Goodreads Summary: 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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