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While this book features the finest world building in all of fiction and perhaps even all of English literature, its obsession with detail makes it a difficult read. It is not something I should have attempted reading at age 13 (did not finish at about 35%), but restarting it was one of the finest decisions I've ever made.

Never before has there been an author that writes suffering on the same level as John Hersey. If you are looking for a historical fiction book to read, this is the one. Just read Hiroshima, and I guarantee you will not regret it.

The implications of this book are beyond my years, but its story-telling is wonderful and it is the finest piece of classic literature I have read to date.

If this was published after 1980, I would have given it one star. Being honest, I read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for AM's hate speech, and nothing else. The book itself is an amalgamation of obscene (and unrealistic) gore, with little-to-no character development and an unreliable narrator. All-in-all, I'd just recommend you play the game instead of reading the book. While media adapted from literature is oftentimes pathetic compared to the source material, the video game adaptation of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream far outperforms what is presented here. If you really want to read this, I'd recommend an audiobook, as listening to somebody read it gives some semblance of emotion.

Hands down the best YA novel I will ever read.

I sincerely hope this is part of a school curriculum one day. While the concept of the unreliable narrator has been around for centuries, this is one of the best uses of the technique I've seen since Edgar Allen Poe's Cask of Amontillado. On top of that, Hendrix's portrayal of post-traumatic stress built a sense panic that kept the pages turning for hours at a time, 10/10.