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Wild Jack

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I have just started reading The Hunger Games and was immediately struck by the fact that the world depicted in that book is very similar to the walled city world described in John Christopher's Wild Jack. I am a fan of Christopher's work and found that this book was typical of his other work. It features a dystopian future world in which a civilized upper class lives in the safety of walled cities, kept safe by a totalitarian regime. The book centers on a young male protagonist who finds himself caught in the web of that totalitarian society and looking towards the "frightening" nature of the wilderness in order to escape.

There is an unfortunately tendency of this author to leave books hanging a little bit. I think this is because he often was setting things up for sequels. Unfortunately, there is no sequel to this book, so as much as the world and concept is quite captivating it is a slightly disappointing reading experience.