This book was a truly unique and amazing story because it actually brings something new and valuable out of an idea that could have ended up feeling recycled. Reading this book gives you new appreciation for life, regardless of who and where you are when you read it. Further props must be given because this book was also adapated into an equally successful movie that produces many of the same feelings. It is, for once, an achievement to finish a book version of somethingyou have already seen the movie version, and think, wow, they did a good job with both of these.