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S'està carregant… An Absolutely Remarkable Thingde Hank Green
  
Top Five Books of 2020 (106) Top Five Books of 2018 (109) Best LGBT Fiction (31) » 13 més Top Five Books of 2022 (490) Books Read in 2018 (731) Books Read in 2020 (1,346) Books Read in 2022 (1,572) Litsy Awards 2018 (16) Female Protagonist (699) Staff Picks (2) BookTok Adult (43) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  GouriReads | Mar 21, 2023 |  Magical realism to a literary level. It's a book that I could only see someone with social media experience at the level of Hank Green or higher writing. The commentary on the effects of Social Media and Fame is eye opening. It really makes you rethink what you post, and how you respond to "famous" people within social media. We are all just humans. April is annoying af. Her voice drove me insane, which is why it took me so long to get through this book, but that is a huge credit to the author. He did an amazing job at pushing the early twenties girl voice through his words. I also feel that this is exactly what would happen if the events in this book happened, so the realistic air of the book for me was spot on. That says volumes about the human population, and the current state of affairs. Read this book, share it with your friends!  ) SabethaDanes | Jan 30, 2023 | Going completely blind into this book, only having seen Hank Green on Tiktok and having little to no knowledge about him as an author, his other engagements, his brother etc, this was the book that made me fall in love again with reading. The sharpness of the references to current popcultural phenomenons, the current political climate, and the angst that the protagonist endures makes this an excellent debut novel! ( ) Dior_Eluchil | Jan 2, 2023 | content warnings: I really liked this book a lot. Like, a lot, a lot, way more than I was expecting to. I liked the characters, I liked the setting, I found all the things the characters went through fascinating, I didn't even mind yelling (metaphorically, since I was in a bookstore reading this) at the main character about her terrible choices - possibly because of the way it was written, which I also really liked. Since the main character was looking back on what had happened and was able to say things like "this was a terrible choice" and "you're going to hate me in a couple of pages", it was a lot easier to forgive her for those things that she clearly regretted doing than it would have been if she had talked about doing them and maybe tried to justify it. Except for the ending, which was kind of a letdown. I'm glad to know there's going to be a sequel (of course there's going to be a sequel) but I prefer books that don't scream "wait for the sequel!" quite so loudly. However, that isn't enough for me to un-recommend this book. I totally recommend this book, it was fantastic. (  ) bluesalamanders | Dec 11, 2022 | I read the library kindle edition -- yay libraries -- and as soon as I finished this, I checked out the next one, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. That should tell you how much I enjoyed book 1. This is a story told by a seriously flawed human who I enjoyed anyway. It's told to the reader and that last chapter... Our MC is queer, bisexual, with a gay not-girlfriend, and the way it's used is clever and telling about our publicity machine. It says way more about manipulation than about sexuality, which is the reality. All the underlying messages and themes in this novel appeal to me, and the author's prose is marvelous, personable and thoughtful and sometimes funny, and sometimes sharply poignant even as April May ignores that and moves on. This is a stunningly good novel and I am very grateful that book 2 is out and also in my library. Yay libraries! ( ) terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world--everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires--and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring from the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I loved how human all of these characters felt. I love how it all came together. All the books that I had read this month made me feel like I was reading about things that weren't real due to the way they were written or made. But this was so unlike that.
I love that I was finally reading a well researched book after going through tones of usual YA crap.
I love that this book was not about a romantic relationship and the "relationships" that did form eventually were not even subplots.
I love Carl and I love Hank Green. I like that his way of writing turned out nothing like that of John Green's ( I did love TATWD though!) .
Looking forward to the second book. (