Who here has read "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson and what did you all think of it? I just read it for my English class (and it was voluntary too, 'cause we had to pick a book for lit. circles and I picked that one) and I LOVED IT! It had a couple sex scenes and some blood and gore in it, but it was very well written and definately a book I'd reccomend to teens 16 and older who can handle the contents. Here's what the back of the book says if you haven't read it yet: "San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries---memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exhile while its atmospheric, [i]Snow Falling on Cedars[/i] is a masterpiece of suspence---but one that leaves us shaken and changed." Read that book and discuss! Very good!