A review by xiekaili
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
4.0
You know.
I need words.
I'm so searching for them. Hoping they will come, and hoping the will express all the feelings I had. Have.
With the wish to read this book I decided to try this "ebook and Audio at the same time" thing. You know, when a book works with listening, that's what I wanted to do. Listen.
To Hannah.
Clay.
It's my first try with listening to an english audio and I have to be honest: I'm glad I have the ebook too. The voices fitted great and because of this "normal" English I understood them. Most of the time. But I learned English in school. A friend of me said, that in school you don't learn the real english, because most of the times the teacher aren't native speakers. And maybe it's true. Sometimes I really didn't understand what they said, just because the pronunciation wasn't like I learned.
But back to the story.
So, sometimes the female speaker sounded a bit to "adult" for me, if that makes sense. But, like I said, at the end I loved the voices. I think they were the perfect choice for transporting this story.
I really recommending to everyone who wants to read it: Listen.
Hannah is getting so much deeper with a voice.
I felt the same way, Clay felt, while he listened to it. I was in Bus, just staring. Lost in my thoughts, hearing Hannah, speaking calmly into my ears.
I looked shocked, I looked sad, I went through all the emotions Clay did.
Really, I found myself sitting there, listening to the description of Clays reaction, realizing, I reacted like that too.
"I look down at my lap, at the Walkman. It’s too dark to see the spindles behind the plastic window, pulling the tape from one side to the other, but I need to focus on something, so I try. And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be..."
So did I. That's what I needed to do. Focus on something. So I just stared at the words. The words of Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen.
It sounds mean, but at first the plot isn't so different of others YAs.
It's like "Asking for it", "The fault in our stars", "All the bright places" yeah even like "All the ugly and wonderful things". They all are describing problems of the society. Of the teens in this world.
But in such a wonderful way.
You really got into the characters. I don't know if that's the way everyone felt, but for me... I never hated anyone of them. Maybe, because even Hannah didn't hate them. This book is so ugly in the content, but the storyTELLING is filled with hope. And yeah, love, I think.
Although I could cry right now, I can smile also.
And although, the content is hard to swallow, it's like I have this good feeling: I will move on. Maybe not right now, but I will.
I can't say I "enjoyed" this book. I mean, there's a "sad" in "happy end".
The book gives you a smile at the end, but it's not like it's just leave you with that. It makes you think. About how the way you act may influence the lives of others. It makes you think what you could do better. It makes you think about how the behavior of others, changed you. Marked you.
"Tony slows the car and pulls over to a curb. “You okay?”"
At the moment Tony? No. Will I? I think.
I need words.
I'm so searching for them. Hoping they will come, and hoping the will express all the feelings I had. Have.
With the wish to read this book I decided to try this "ebook and Audio at the same time" thing. You know, when a book works with listening, that's what I wanted to do. Listen.
To Hannah.
Clay.
It's my first try with listening to an english audio and I have to be honest: I'm glad I have the ebook too. The voices fitted great and because of this "normal" English I understood them. Most of the time. But I learned English in school. A friend of me said, that in school you don't learn the real english, because most of the times the teacher aren't native speakers. And maybe it's true. Sometimes I really didn't understand what they said, just because the pronunciation wasn't like I learned.
But back to the story.
So, sometimes the female speaker sounded a bit to "adult" for me, if that makes sense. But, like I said, at the end I loved the voices. I think they were the perfect choice for transporting this story.
I really recommending to everyone who wants to read it: Listen.
Hannah is getting so much deeper with a voice.
I felt the same way, Clay felt, while he listened to it. I was in Bus, just staring. Lost in my thoughts, hearing Hannah, speaking calmly into my ears.
I looked shocked, I looked sad, I went through all the emotions Clay did.
Really, I found myself sitting there, listening to the description of Clays reaction, realizing, I reacted like that too.
"I look down at my lap, at the Walkman. It’s too dark to see the spindles behind the plastic window, pulling the tape from one side to the other, but I need to focus on something, so I try. And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be..."
So did I. That's what I needed to do. Focus on something. So I just stared at the words. The words of Hannah Baker and Clay Jensen.
It sounds mean, but at first the plot isn't so different of others YAs.
It's like "Asking for it", "The fault in our stars", "All the bright places" yeah even like "All the ugly and wonderful things". They all are describing problems of the society. Of the teens in this world.
But in such a wonderful way.
You really got into the characters. I don't know if that's the way everyone felt, but for me... I never hated anyone of them. Maybe, because even Hannah didn't hate them. This book is so ugly in the content, but the storyTELLING is filled with hope. And yeah, love, I think.
Although I could cry right now, I can smile also.
And although, the content is hard to swallow, it's like I have this good feeling: I will move on. Maybe not right now, but I will.
I can't say I "enjoyed" this book. I mean, there's a "sad" in "happy end".
The book gives you a smile at the end, but it's not like it's just leave you with that. It makes you think. About how the way you act may influence the lives of others. It makes you think what you could do better. It makes you think about how the behavior of others, changed you. Marked you.
"Tony slows the car and pulls over to a curb. “You okay?”"
At the moment Tony? No. Will I? I think.