Sweet Sixteen

Dystopian novels have always been a favorite of mine. There's nothing like a frightening future to make you realize that your life isn't as bad as you thought... or to scare you shit-less when you think of whats to come. When I decided to read Bar Code Tattoo, I think I was expecting something a bit more intense, something perhaps written like The Hunger Games. However, what I did get was a book that is a little more tame, not quite as suspenseful and slightly slower moving but the reality is that a book like Bar Code Tattoo is far more frightening than The Hunger Games because there is a better chance of it becoming our true future. It's hard to imagine that The Hunger Games could ever actually occur. When you think about both books it seems that our world may be leading toward a world like the one Suzanne Weyn created. Weyn didn't change our world all that much to get to her world, in fact she allowed something from her own life to initiate the idea.