Janice told us today the three stages of reviewing a book: your initial emotional response, your literary response, and your professional response. Thus, this is how I'm going to (try to) write these reviews XD 
 Emotional: I hated it. I'd rather beat my head against the wall than read about disaffected suburban youth because they're ALL THE SAME. Everyone annoyed me, everything about it annoyed me, and I couldn't wait to get to the (rather unfulfilling) end so I wouldn't have to read it anymore. 
 Literary: I can, however, see the merits of the messages about power in the wrong hands, in the wrong places, and how it can turn someone into a person they're really not. What started out as a chocolate war turned into Jerry's war against peer pressure, and against himself. 
 Professional: I would include this book in the library on the basis that it's a classic. Teens who want to read realistic fiction about displaced power would like this.