Okay, so I’ve already nerd ranted about how Cedric Diggory pwns Edward Cullen, but now I’m going to nerd rant about something else.
Something awesomesauce.
That’s right, I’m going to nerd rant about THE BEST BOOK EVER (in my opinion).

This book is called Unwind, written by Neal Shusterman, and it’s pretty great.

So! This book is essentially about what happens after the “Second Civil War” which was about Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice. After the whole huge war, there is a bill made that appeases to both sides of the war. The bill is called the Bill of Life.

Now, the Bill of Life states that from the moment of conception, a child cannot be aborted. But when the child turns thirteen, the parents have the option to retroactively abort the child until it reaches the age of eighteen. This did not anger those who were Pro-Life because when the child got “aborted” they technically didn’t die. The “aborted” child gets sent to a camp where it waits until it is “unwound.”

When you are unwound they take you apart piece by piece, but still keep you alive. After you are completely taken apart, they send your body parts off to hospitals where other people will receive your organs for transplants or if he or she lost an arm then your arm would be grafted onto them. But even when they get your arm, it’s still your arm. If you were magician, someone who always did card tricks, your arm would still hold the muscle memory of all the actions you did while holding the cards. The person who got your arm would be able to hold a deck of cards and the arm, by itself and without any thought of its new owner, would start to do card tricks that you learned.

There is also the concept that your arm doesn’t know that it is separated from your body. Like if you had brain damage and had a lobe in your brain replaced with someone else’s, that lobe in your brain would be under your control, but only most of the time. Occasionally you’d get odd impulses or maybe quick flashes of a memory, or maybe you’d feel a distinct pull towards a certain place or direction. This would not be you; this would be the poor soul who was unwound and had no idea that it was no longer connected to its own body. You would almost be two people.

That’s the basis of the book, and I don’t want to go into the plot line, because I don’t want to ruin it for anybody!
And I know it sounds disturbing but it really is one of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read.
I’ve re-read it about six times.
It’s awesome.
No!
It’s awesomesauce.

And then comes the conclusion to Nerd Rant, Part II.

Please stand by.