I'm not joking, this book,"Double Identity" (by Margaret Peterson) is completely terrible, its disturbing to the point i almost threw up from the thought of it. This girl, Bethany, has two parents(duh) and they suddenly start acting strange. They dump her off at her aunts house and never tell her anything, why, what happened? whats happening?...Shes there for one day and she learns about this girl Elizabeth, who was born before her from the same parents. Her mothers been going crazy for the last few days now yet shes just weird. So they decide to cut all communication off with Bethany then Bethany receives a call from her mother,
"Oh, Elizabeth, I'm so happy you could get to the phone. Isn't it nice Myrlie could come to visit you in the hospital? Myrlie loved you so-everyone loves you, you're such a wonderful girl. I'm sorry about what happened. I didn't see that truck coming-I didn't! And he didn't see me.... Why weren't the signs clearer? Oh, my poor, Poor baby girl..."
Bethany: "Mom, It's okay. It's not your fault. Everything is okay."
"Honey, you don't have to be brave for me, I know your in a lot of pain, and the doctors say the end isn't far away. But, listen, don't worry. Walter says...your father says... Your father says we can get you back. If we save some of your cells, it'll be like you never died."
Bethany: "I don't understand"
"Oh, Elizabeth, its simple. simple and fabulous. We'll make a copy of you."
Bethany: "A...copy?"
"yes, Theres another name for it. We'll have an exact copy. A clone."
That just makes me want to throw up. Bleh. So, menewshans, what do you think?

Spoiler/summary;
Bethany is living this life that wasn't originally hers, her parents know whats going to happen and when its going to happen. When she'll get glasses when she needs her first bra, etc. I can't stomach it very well. This man paid Bethany's father to clone himself or his son, I forgot which, but instead of cloning his song, they cloned her. Bethany's sister, or rather her clone died in a car crash on her thirteenth birthday. Bethany, Elizabeth's clone doesn't know whats happening until about the very end of the book. It's a very odd book and it's not that great. I wouldn't recommend it.

hmm could you type a summery or spoiler?

only part i got was the girl is a Clone of another girl

i read that book, but i didn't think it was bad....the book's not entirely about clones

That sounds interesting...
But not disturbing, I like disturbing things xD; Is it more disturbing when actually reading it?

I really enjoyed that book, but don't remember much about it.

Originally, it did strike me as pretty sick and odd though..

I read it long time ago ;_;

Is this a sci-fi book or what?

Can't say I've ever read it. Probably won't now, but mostly because I have other books I want to read.

O_o. Honestly, it doesn't sound that disturbing. Yes clones are weird, but not disturbing especially if it's classified under "Sci-fi".

Yeeaaah, well it sounds pretty weird to say the least. Not something I would read.

I don't think that it would make me sick, but I'm not really sure that the book sounds like something I would be into. However, the actual premise sounds like it would make for an interesting read, if it were put into a different context.

I think it would be a decent premise for a science fiction novel, clones being made of people without their knowledge or consent, or people finding out they already are clones. Then someone, or a group of people, beginning to uncover what is going on.

I understand what the thread starter means in terms of being "sick". Cloning and things of the like are morally wrong IMO because so far they arent for anything other than to make the suriving relatives of recently deceased happy to see them again OR to have something to harvest body parts from...this book doesnt sound as disturbing as described but thats not to say its ok either...anywho never heard of it and probably wont read it o_o

Is that the same person as Margaret Peterson Haddix, or is that someone different? I used to really like her books when I was younger...I read Leaving Fishers, Among the Hidden, and Running Out of Time. I haven't read the new one you're talking about (assuming it is the same person). It doesn't sound like it would be disturbing to read about, but it would be disturbing if it happened in real life. Her books always had strange but interesting plots, I enjoyed them.

It sounds like an interesting possibility that could come about in the future, but I can see how some people might find it disturbing.

Cloning usually isn't a very comfortable subject for anyone, and the idea that parents would raise a clone and never let her know who she is supposed to be is rather disturbing, though it would be insteresting to hear the writer's interpretation of the clones behavior. Are her characteristics the same as her original, or is she different?

Strange, yes. But I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's disturbing.
But hey, I haven't read it, so I can't be 100% sure on my view of the book from the summary/spoiler part.
I've read a few books by that author and I don't think her books are too bad, except that was years ago.
So I don't know about now.

Sounds like a thriller...
I normally stay away from those books anyways they confuse me. x.X
Thanks for the warning.

Its actually not that bad of a book. I thought it was insightful, though a bit predictable in the end.

That actually reminds me of a movie I accidentally saw on TV once; where the parents lost their baby but had him "cloned" in the womb once again, so they could have him.

The parents end up attracting a lot of media and attention, I forget how it ends, though. I'm pretty sure they get the baby and everything.

It doesn't sound sick, disturbing and sick are two serperate things. Disturbing yes, imagining that happening to someone and then they find out about it. I mean, not only that but paired up with your parents pretty much having a mental break-down? That alone is disturbing for anyone, I'd imagine.

Anyway. It sounds like something I'd like to read. Thanks for making this thread, else I never would have known about it.

OK, call me wierd, but i like books like those. They are hard to stomache at times, but the fact that they are hard to stomach means that they are well written, and the fact that it evokes emotion in the reader (discomfort, or whatever) only shows how real of a possibilty this could be. SOmeday it will be possible to clone people, and when that day comes, there will be plenty of people lined up to exhume the bodies of dead loved ones because their greif is so terrible.

It's not a happy topic, but i think the plot of the book is enough to make you think.

Again, that's just me.

I think my friend read that book. She said it was really weird and stupid. I guess I know why now.....

It sounds about as disturbing as Jenny Nimmo's Milo's Wolves, which I loved, and wasn't that disturbing. It's also about clones. It felt very... grey. In a spooky sort of way.

Personally, I don't think it's THAT disturbing.

People's personalities and dispositions are greatly determined by genetics, this has been proven through various studies of identical twins that were separated at birth and are still amazingly similar. Of course, the environment also has a great effect on personality, but at the very basic, a clone is the exact same person as the cloned. Their personality "data", if you will, is the same.

The thing that bothers me is the somewhat strange personal details and how they seem to be almost memorized. Also, If I knew I had died and then been cloned, I'd be FREAKED D8

Well that does sound disturbing. Sounds like an interesting book. One that I wouldn't read, but still interesting. As long as it is fiction I'm good, but her parents are sick freaks to clone their daughter.

The subject of cloning brings up all kinds of ethical issues, but it's not THAT disturbing. Hell, I might enjoy a mind fuck story like that.

Your enormous font made me almost give up reading this thread. >_<

I actually think I've heard of this book before, and I think I've thought it was "weird" before, too. However, it's something of a motif in literature - the shocking situation. I think this author's written a lot of stuff along those lines, though. She wrote "Running out of Time" and "Turnabout" and "Among the Hidden", which are all sort of shocking, absurd situations that are just a bit too weird. Though I'll admit that's a whole new level of strange.

Ahhh! The big red text scares me.
I think I've read this book before. It wasn't that bad but it's your opinion.

Hoo-sha. You don't have much experience with the unbelievably sick, do you? Sure, in real life, that would be pretty freakish, but it the world of fiction?

Fiction is a rich tapestry of sickness, and that's just the tip of the ice burg. Ha-ha! Non-matching metaphors!