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Cargando... Like the Red Panda (Harvest Book) (edición 2004)por Andrea Seigel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book definitely had its moments but overall I felt like it was all over the place. A book about teen suicide is a hard subject to breech because it is a very sensitive and overdone topic. Stella had this weird and unnerving just lack of emotion throughout most of the book. The fact that she rarely if ever showed interest in life, despite the things she had going for her, college and sort-of boyfriend, got very old. It was interesting to see and hear things from her point of view and some of the observations were interesting and funny. But overall, it was merely okay. Not a showstopper, and definitely glad it was a library read. It's hard to leave this book not feeling slightly let down. ( ) I greatly enjoyed many of the lines and situations written in this book, and the prose was easy to digest. The characters were frustratingly unsympathetic and inscrutable, however. I'm interested in reading Siegel's next novel to see if some of the problems I found resolve themselves in later work, but not so interested that I've bothered to pick it up yet. Mostly I spent this novel page turning quickly to see what wildly improbable thing might happen or be said next. I have to say, I enjoyed it more while thinking of the storyline as an absurd spectacle than as a real narrative, especially with the ballsy ending. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever more ingenious ways of committing suicide in his retirement home. Here are the last two weeks of Stella's senior year in Orange County, California: the intensive AP final exams; the childish, celebratory trips; the totemic importance attached to graduation. Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on her life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it, planting clues and providing explanations for those who will try to understand the act she is about to commit. With perfect pitch, remarkable wit, and a spare, vivid prose, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a wry philosophical inquiry. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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