Nothing
by:
Janne Teller (author)
Format: Tapa blanda
ASIN: B00GX3KPV2
Publish date: 2012-05-01
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition language: English
Er. Ow. And possibly "ack!"I kind of got blind-sided by this one, at least at first. The description of the boy in the plum tree yelling philosophy at his classmates has me expecting something a bit more serio-comic. But the situation gets dark very quickly, and even before things get really horribl...
When picking up Nothing, a reader needs to be prepared to suspend their disbelief an extraordinary amount for what is meant to be a realistic, contemporary story. A young (13-14) boy decides that nothing means anything, so he decides to spend his days in a tree yelling what are, in translation, irri...
This book is pure nihilism, which means that it is profoundly fucked up. You're either going to love it or hate it, and it will most certainly offend you, but I do think it's worth a read.
3.5Niente è un libro che si legge in pochissimo tempo, nel giro di un paio d’ore, ma che poi ti lascia destabilizzata a riflettere per diversi giorni. Mi riesce difficile parlarvene perché, se devo essere sincera, non ho ben capito nemmeno io cosa ho letto. Il tutto ha inizio quando un bambino di no...
This is a strange, strange book. I had an hour and a half to kill before a meeting and picked this off the shelf because it seemed like a quick read.Plum-tree boy reminded me so much of Grendel. And I was afraid of this book. I think someone compared it to Lord of the Flies. Never has that sounded m...
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