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House of Stairs

Is it House of Stairs by William Sleator?

http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278450763&sr=1-1

There are no bad or good days. Just days. Did your dog just die? Still another day. Events happen, many outside of our control. Assigning the arbitrary day they happened a meaning is pointless. It's really hard for us not to though.

I remember watching a TV show where they locked a bunch of people in a room and they had to escape. There were all sorts of little things they had to try to escape. The only thing keeping them there was time. But they started to assign meaningless reason to their actions. When they finally escaped they all thought they had done something, but in reality the timer on the clock ran out.

This is what you're doing. A timer on a clock ran out, something happened, you prescribe it happened because you were wearing or doing x.

I also highly recommend reading this book - http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809
Take the time to consider the wider implications and what it would mean for you.

Yup, House of Stairs by William Sleator

Maybe William Sleator's House of Stairs?

House of Stairs
I doubt it's what you're looking for, although it's an excellent recommendation.

A really fascinating book I read when I was 11 was William Sleator's House of Stairs. http://www.amazon.com/House-Stairs-William-Sleator/dp/0140345809

It is considered YA, but I think it tackles some pretty intense concepts. contemporary analogs would probably be The Giver.