[setpatchaddress]

Dissenting voice here. I did not like the book. It's dark and unpleasant and contra other people here I don't think it speaks to any particularly interesting truths about how supposedly smart kids can be misled.

edited to add: I arrived at this opinion when I first read the book sometime in the early 90's, which I think is decades before the author's bigotry became public.

[samplatt]

I read the author's Homecoming series in the 90's. That doesn't outright show his bigotry but my lord, it hints heavily towards it.