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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I thought this was a pretty good book. It was an interesting take on how things could be. I enjoyed reading about how everyday companies like McDonalds and Coca-Cola became a major part of life in the future. It was interesting how Mr. Hautman decided to make prison labor one of the major factors in the economy of the future. Overall I enjoyed this book and would recommend it. kedahlberg | Jul 2, 2009 |   Rash by Pete Hautman is a exciting book about a boy named Bo Marsten who lives in the USSA. USSA stands for the United Safer States of America where most of today’s most basic activates are now illegal. Things like walking are illegal without the proper equipment and protection. After Bo breaks the law 3 times, he is sent to a work camp where he is forced to make pizzas for no pay at all. While there, his warden recruits him to play on an illegal football team. After training for weeks, Bo is sent to the rival Coke work camp where he is to play their football team. Will Bo keep playing this illegal sport he loves, or end up getting in more trouble? The cover of this book is very cool with a polar bear in the background. The polar bear ends up being very important in this book. I would recommend this book to any sports lover or sci-fi lover. It contains a lot of both of them and they go together really well. (  )lchs.mrso | May 26, 2009 | Kearsten says: this is an interesting concept, which doesn't seem very unlikely - I can definitely see us getting to the point where "walking" will seem to dangerous. Especially since I can remember playing on playgrounds that were metal and poured concrete without fancy shade tents... (  )59Square | Feb 2, 2009 | It's the late 21st century, and things are different. Bo's father and brother are in prison, like 1/3 of the men in the new USSA. Offenses like road rage and verbal assault carry heavy sentences, and the prisoners do most of the work of running the country. Bo realizes that the old saying "like father, like son" is true when he finds himself in a prison camp/pizza factory on the Canadian tundra for not controlling his temper. Prison life is dangerous, but not as dangerous as the illegal football team he's recruited to play on. Should he face the violence of the team, or trust his school AI project, Bork, to get him out? Will he be able to control the violence within him in the real world? (  )becker | Feb 2, 2009 | Rash was a story about a boy who didn't really fit in at school. He has anger issues and is sent away to camp. Olisia | Dec 7, 2008 | 0.048 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0689868014, Hardcover)"Of course, without people like us Marstens, there wouldn't be anybody to do the manual labor that makes this country run. Without penal workers, who would work the production lines, or pick the melons and peaches, or maintain the streets and parks and public lavatories? Our economy depends on prison labor. Without it everybody would have to work -- whether they wanted to or not."In the late twenty-first century Bo Marsten is unjustly accused of a causing a rash that plagues his entire high school. He loses it, and as a result, he's sentenced to work in the Canadian tundra, at a pizza factory that's surrounded by hungry polar bears. Bo finds prison life to be both boring and dangerous, but it's nothing compared to what happens when he starts playing on the factory's highly illegal football team. In the meantime, Bork, an artificial intelligence that Bo created for a science project, tracks Bo down in prison. Bork has spun out of control and seems to be operating on his own. He offers to get Bo's sentence shortened, but can Bo trust him? And now that Bo has been crushing skulls on the field, will he be able to go back to his old, highly regulated life? Pete Hautman takes a satirical look at an antiseptic future in this darkly comic mystery/adventure. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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