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I expected this book to be a light-hearted story about zombies in high school. It was totally not what I expected. This story is a lesson in acceptance, persecution, bigotry, prejudice & racism (or bioism as the book called it for the zombies). Its a very "in your face", obvious lesson, but since it is a YA book I didnt expect the "deepness" of a book written for adults. If you are looking for a funny, light-hearted paranormal type book, this is really not it. That being said, I enjoyed the story, and it was still interesting and I cared about what was going to happen to the characters enough to keep reading. I just kept feeling like it was a bit overdone on trying to get the point accross kinda like an "after school special" on TV :)Overall, worth reading, but not worth full bookstore price. Get it on PBS!

Generation Dead had so much potiential being a supernatural book which is very popular right now. I really wanted to love this book the way I loved the title. However, the book cover had nothing to do with the plot ( their are no dead cheerleaders here). Second, this was sort of a snooze in some places. I really struggled to get through most of it and I did skip to the end just to find out what happened. The ending was rather well done. The author is young and you can tell it's kind of like he just graduated highschool and isn't over it yet. I guess the biggest problem was the editing he could have just cut a lot of the part about the program and focused on Phoebe and Adam or just Adam he was the most likable character in the whole book. Probably won't read the second or the third book.

A beautiful well written book. You get deeply involved with all the characters from the start to the finish of this book. And this is a very thought provoking book. How would we act if our friends came back from the dead? What would we do the first time we saw them? Just an amazing book that gets you to thinking and the story is amazing as well. A total page turner! And hopefully this is a start of a series...hopefully!

They don't like to be called zombies. Or dead heads, or worm food, or whatever pejorative terms the "creative" people of the world are coming up with. They're differently biotic: American teens literally rising from the dead into some semblance of their former selves. Everyone is terrified of them. What are they, and why have they come back from the dead?

High school junior Phoebe doesn't share the world's qualms. In fact, she just might have a crush on Tommy Williams, a quietly powerful differently biotic boy who shocks all the students of Oakvale High when he tries out for the football team, just to prove that he can. Phoebe admires Tommy's guts, but there are people less happy with his actions, most notably Pete Martinsburg, fellow teammate and soul-crushing zombie-hater who just might do anything to stop the differently biotic from living a life that is not theirs to live.

Phoebe's best friend Adam is secretly in love with her, and thus finds it difficult to believe that she can like, well, a dead guy like Tommy Williams. But as Adam begins to learn about the plight of the differently biotic, the prejudices and difficulties they face, he realizes that maybe the only way he can help Phoebe be happy is by protecting Tommy... no matter the cost.

Wow! Daniel Waters creatively plugs into the typical YA reader's love for paranormal romance and ends up teaching us all a lesson about civil rights, prejudice, and tolerance. All of the characters are carefully constructed to be three-dimensional: readers can even empathize with the jerk Pete Martinsburg's tortured feelings towards zombies. I also appreciated the generous--and accurate!--details about sports (football, baseball, Frisbee) because that is not something I come across often enough in YA literature. While occasionally the lecturing about tolerance goes on for a page too long, overall GENERATION DEAD is a fun way of being enlightened about the issues regarding bigotry and prejudice.