Thirteen Reasons Why
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES**
"Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." --Chicago Tribune
"A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." --The New York Times
"Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading." --Amber Gibson, NPR's "All Things Considered"
You can't stop the future.
You can't rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. Need to talk? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime if you are in the United States. It's free and confidential.
Find more resources at 13reasonswhy.info. Find out how you can help someone in crisis at bethe1to.com.
"Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." --Chicago Tribune
"A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." --The New York Times
"Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading." --Amber Gibson, NPR's "All Things Considered"
You can't stop the future.
You can't rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. Need to talk? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime if you are in the United States. It's free and confidential.
Find more resources at 13reasonswhy.info. Find out how you can help someone in crisis at bethe1to.com.
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Omg this book is something else. This is a very heartbreaking book and very powerful and thought provoking. It's controversial because it talks about suicide, but it makes you think and discuss about it.
This was a great book. It's sad also. No I didn't cry. Well, I got teary eyed. (I hate to cry) but I did feel the emotions. Defiantly 5 stars.
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Picked up yet another book for the sheer fact that some of my friends were reading it. BOY, you guys need to read better stuff!! LOL The book is about a high school freshman named Hannah Baker, who commits suicide, but before she goes through with it, she creates a set of cassette tapes for 13 people who she blames (and some she doesn't, but felt they needed to be included) for her death.
First, it is incredibly hard to believe that someone would be as descriptive as Miss Baker is while speaking on a cassette tape, that you find out at the end of the story, has NO idea how to make a tape until she's ready to die. All of her "speaking" reads, well, like a book, not a person speaking.
Second, at first you like Hannah, you feel bad for her, and you hope for some sort of a happy ending. But, as you continue to read her "tapes", you start to get a little annoyed. I felt like through most of the story, that the "reasons" she had for wanting to kill herself were incredibly trivial and stupid. Hannah acts as though she's "above it all", when in reality, she is exactly like all of these other classmates she says causes her suicide. The story builds and builds for this big climax, and when you find out what it is (she witnesses a classmate get raped while passed out drunk, and the other is she is in a car with another student who hits a stop sign, which causes another classmates death), you're like, okay, so it had to do with A LOT of different people, not just YOU. You still feel, at the end, that there is no reason for her to kill herself, and that this so-called embarrassment that will come if the people on the tapes don't pass the tapes along, is actually ludicrous. If a teenager in high school who was going through the regular crap teenagers go through read this book, they would have complete validation for killing themselves. There is almost no message at the end of this book, other than, well, maybe try a little harder.
Honestly, just not that great as far as the writing goes. The author doesn't succeed in making Hannah FEEL like a teenage girl. She feels more like a mean, old lady who is pissed off at the neighborhood for their loud "ragers."
Really disappointed, because this book seemed as though it carried a ton of potential to be SO much better than it was!
First, it is incredibly hard to believe that someone would be as descriptive as Miss Baker is while speaking on a cassette tape, that you find out at the end of the story, has NO idea how to make a tape until she's ready to die. All of her "speaking" reads, well, like a book, not a person speaking.
Second, at first you like Hannah, you feel bad for her, and you hope for some sort of a happy ending. But, as you continue to read her "tapes", you start to get a little annoyed. I felt like through most of the story, that the "reasons" she had for wanting to kill herself were incredibly trivial and stupid. Hannah acts as though she's "above it all", when in reality, she is exactly like all of these other classmates she says causes her suicide. The story builds and builds for this big climax, and when you find out what it is (she witnesses a classmate get raped while passed out drunk, and the other is she is in a car with another student who hits a stop sign, which causes another classmates death), you're like, okay, so it had to do with A LOT of different people, not just YOU. You still feel, at the end, that there is no reason for her to kill herself, and that this so-called embarrassment that will come if the people on the tapes don't pass the tapes along, is actually ludicrous. If a teenager in high school who was going through the regular crap teenagers go through read this book, they would have complete validation for killing themselves. There is almost no message at the end of this book, other than, well, maybe try a little harder.
Honestly, just not that great as far as the writing goes. The author doesn't succeed in making Hannah FEEL like a teenage girl. She feels more like a mean, old lady who is pissed off at the neighborhood for their loud "ragers."
Really disappointed, because this book seemed as though it carried a ton of potential to be SO much better than it was!
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