Galax-Arena

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Summary: "Sometimes the truth is more terrible than a lie."
Review: "Sometimes the truth is more terrible than a lie." This is what the cover of the book states. I read this book once, and could not resisted buying my own copy. It's about Joey & her siblings as the they strugle to stay alive, and sane, in the Galax-Arena. Joey is not as good at acrobatics as every one else. So she becomes a "pet" for a Vexa. There, as a pet, she discover that sometimes the truth is more terrible than a lie.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: For any young readers who don't have an idea of Science-Ficitoin novels, you should start by reading this astonishing book. It's will suck you in the science-ficition and fantasy realm. If you have any chance in reading the book, just grab it and read the first three chapters and after that, you won't be able to put the book back to it's place. Enjoy...

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Summary: Galax-Arena is a GREAT book! you have to read it!
Review: Galax-Arena is a book that is really good and you don't have to like a certain genre, though it helps if you like sci-fi. It's about this family, actually about this girl who is not physically fit,but she has to perfrom for "aliens".

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Summary: Everyday Conspiracies
Review: Galax-Arena is definitely one of the most riveting and intriguing storys I have ever read. Usually I don't like science fiction novels, but this one glued my eyeballs to it and wouldn't let me go until I finished. The surprise ending is especially interesting, and the whole story is unpredictable. Every chapter has something unexpected, but the book in whole is just creepy and eerie, and when I was done I itched for another one. BOTTOM LINE: Galax-Arena is the fresh new tale that the redundant book industry needed.

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Summary: Everyday Conspiracies
Review: Galax-Arena is definitely one of the most riveting and intriguing storys I have ever read. Usually I don't like science fiction novels, but this one glued my eyeballs to it and wouldn't let me go until I finished. The surprise ending is especially interesting, and the whole story is unpredictable. Every chapter has something unexpected, but the book in whole is just creepy and eerie, and when I was done I itched for another one. BOTTOM LINE: Galax-Arena is the fresh new tale that the redundant book industry needed.

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Summary: The Book Dealt with real life issues extemely well
Review: Gillian Rubinstien has written a truly compelling story wich deals with many issues including Racism, Individual verse society, Survival, Rebellion. The Issues are very true to all society in the world. This books ranks in my top 19.5 favoirite books of this lifetime

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Summary: One of the best science-fiction books I have read!
Review: Gilligan Rubenstein is an amazing writer. It's been quite come time since I've read "Galax-Arena", but I can still recall a whole lot of details, just because the writing was so well done. The plot and ending was really great (but I won't reveal it ^_~). I would definitely reccomend this book to other readers!

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Summary: Mesmerising
Review: I find that this fictional story is similar to the autobiography "Falling Leaves". In both books, children are drawn to adults who poison their lives. What I find most scary and interesting about this book is that the children continue to love their captor even thought they know that he is evil. The author shows how this can happen. I read this book when I was 14 and I wish I had read it earlier so that I knew that such things could happen. The author portrays, in a very true-to-life way, what the children do in their attempt to survive. She must have done a lot of research on survival. I hope to read similar books and other books by the same author.

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Summary: Boring!!!!
Review: I found this book very, very boring. It just draged on and on. The peb language was extemely hard to understand. Sorry Gilllian but I have read better.

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Summary: You will not be able to put this down
Review: I haven't read any Young Adult novels since I was, er, 14, but this is as smart and riveting of a science fiction novel as anything I've read in the last few years. This is good writing, period, and makes distinctions between 'young adult' and 'adult' categories meaningless. The predicament the children face in this novel is an amplified version of what anyone feels at one point in their life and the blending of realism and the weirder elements was also seamless. This also deals with sibling rivalry, competition, and exploitation by powerful people of those unable to really defend themselves. The surprise that slowly unfolds at the end kept me glued to my seat. It's not exactly a cheerful book. But in this slim volume, rather than being a flight of fancy, it raises difficult questions that have no easy answers. Which by the way is the hallmark of much compelling literature, SF or otherwise: challenging our assumptions instead of confirming what we already believe through escapism. To make a long story short, I can't recommend this book more.