DNF Reasoning 5/2012: I think this book gave me a headache. I simply could not finish. I was so excited to read it given some of the rave reviews it got and I love dystopian novels, but the writing was unbearable. It's one thing to express yourself with a nice vocabulary, paint a picture with metaphors, etc -- But that was the whole narrative. Every other sentence was a metaphor or a simile, half of which didn't even make sense. It wasn't beautiful and thoughtful -- It was distracting and annoying. And what may have even been more annoying was the constant use of strikethrough. Okay. I get it. She's only had herself to talk to for the past 200-and-however-many-days and she's tormented and she's torn about how to interact with people. But enough! Pick a thought and if you need to counteract it, do so like a normal person. 
 Overall, I just had to stop reading. I could not continue reading a book that was narrated like that. It was confusing, I was annoyed, and really disappointed because I think without the author trying to hard to make an impression and be something different, it could have been a really nice book.