My favorite book to this day is still The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. I still don’t know why. It does not by any means fit my standard type of book be it the romance, the inspirational or the “young adult” fiction (aka Twilight, Host, Harry Potter…) But I love it. This one may be a bit more for the men than the ladies but a good read nonetheless…
“You see, Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set up here. The greed part--a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part--watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards. ” - Archie, pg. 241. Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
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