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The Bar Code Tattoo By Suzanne Weyn

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I read ‘The Bar Code Tattoo’ by Suzanne Weyn. I really didn’t enjoy the book very much to be honest, but it had a really cool idea. It was where people get tattoos of barcodes, instead of things like IDs and credit cards. There was a resistance group, and they found out that the barcodes held their genetic information as well. The government was trying to weed out any people with ‘bad genes’, and create a perfect race, then clone everyone a bunch. There was also a part of the book where the people in the resistance group were trying to escape the country, to get away from the tattoo. I think that this would make a really cool movie. I has it all; drama, romance, action, surprises, betrayal intriguing characters and plot lines, and it could

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