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harleyrae's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book! It was both funny and moving, I could not put this book down! I was a little hesitant at first to pick up this book, mainly because of the horrible cover. But i'm so happy I did, I just loved this book.
katdfleming's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book and it emotionally wiped me out. Must read a comedy next.
hannahhbic's review against another edition
4.0
I got pretty annoyed with the main character's obsession with his former girlfriend and found him creepy, but liked the rest of the book. I enjoyed how the minor characters were fleshed out and how they interacted with each other. The writing was superb.
fai_aka's review against another edition
5.0
This book is brilliant. There's sad and touching moments, but also funny and cringing moments. It's a fast-paced book for me since the writing is simple and easy, but there's a lot of life? quotes that left me thinking about things that I never thought about.
I can't imagine what it feels like to come back from the dead(and I still can't wrapped my head around this idea actually) but this book pretty much sums up all the emotions and troubles that'll happen if one day it will become possible.
Basically, it's the kind of book that unexpectedly gets into your head and left you with all these mixed emotions. At least that's how I feel about it.
Anyway, if you're expecting a scientific side of this whole attaching head onto a new body thing in this book, you'll be really disappointed. It's more on how Travis deals with this new bizarre situation emotionally.
I can't imagine what it feels like to come back from the dead(and I still can't wrapped my head around this idea actually) but this book pretty much sums up all the emotions and troubles that'll happen if one day it will become possible.
Basically, it's the kind of book that unexpectedly gets into your head and left you with all these mixed emotions. At least that's how I feel about it.
Anyway, if you're expecting a scientific side of this whole attaching head onto a new body thing in this book, you'll be really disappointed. It's more on how Travis deals with this new bizarre situation emotionally.
honeybeeg's review against another edition
4.0
What would life look like if you had been dead for 5 years and now aren't? That's the premise of Noggin. When a brave 16 year old decides to try the only option left to save his life; remove his head, freeze it till science catches up, then be attached to a new body and see where life goes from there. Once awake everyone is older, everything is different, and you feel stuck the same. Navigating the complicated relationships and the future Travis must deiced what he wants his future to look like and deal with some issues of mortality.
spom2024's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
aliena_jackson's review against another edition
1.0
This book was terrible! The main character, Travis, is entitled, selfish, and the epitome of a “nice guy”-he thinks he’s owed something he doesn’t deserve. I have to admit, I found this book at my local library and thought it would be a fun YA read. Little did I know the horrors it contained.
The concept of this book is interesting, but completely unrealistic. Cutting someone’s head off and surgically reattaching it is just not feasible, at least with the current advancement of cytogenetics. It started off okay, but unmemorable. It was boring. I can’t remember that much about it, and I finished it a day ago!
Let us start from the beginning, shall we?
Travis has cancer. Travis cut his head off and froze it to stop the cancer and get another chance at life. Travis comes back. Travis meets everyone but his ex-girlfriend- and throws a fit when he finds out she’s engaged- even though she’s a twenty one year old adult! She’s emotionally unprepared for his return, and so she avoids him while she sorts out her feelings. And instead of respecting this, what does Travis do? He STALKS her. He follows her to a bar and sings a love song while staring her in the eyes. Blah blah blah, more boring stuff happens, and then she starts hanging out with him-as friends!
DOES EVERYONE HEAR THAT? SHE EXPLICITLY STATED THAT THEY WERE JUST FRIENDS, AND TRAVIS CONTINUES TO MAKE SEXUAL AND ROMANTIC ADVANCES TOWARDS HER THAT SHE VERY CLEARLY DOES NOT WANT!
Now, let’s talk about the hard on scene. Travis gets an erection talking to Cate, and it just made me very uncomfortable because he was making it very obvious that he had one. Please read the part where I scream at you through the internet by using all caps again.
DESPITE ALL OF THIS, TRAVIS DOES THE DUMBEST THING EVER AND DECIDES THAT IN ORDER TO WIN HER BACK, HE IS GOING TO PROPOSE TO HER IN FRONT OF HER FIANCÉE. HE GOES THROUGH WITH THIS! AND THEN HE BREAKS HER FIANCEE’S NOSE. THE FIANCÉE WASN’T EVEN MAD ABOUT IT.
Then, at the end, he comes to the realization that it’s all Cate’s fault for trying to be friends and that they can never be friends. I just can’t with this character. He’s insufferable. Don’t read this book. I’m not even sure why I gave it a one. Probably because I found the proposal scene hilarious. If you do read this book- just skip everything else and read the proposal scene. It’s preposterous. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
- Aliena
The concept of this book is interesting, but completely unrealistic. Cutting someone’s head off and surgically reattaching it is just not feasible, at least with the current advancement of cytogenetics. It started off okay, but unmemorable. It was boring. I can’t remember that much about it, and I finished it a day ago!
Let us start from the beginning, shall we?
Travis has cancer. Travis cut his head off and froze it to stop the cancer and get another chance at life. Travis comes back. Travis meets everyone but his ex-girlfriend- and throws a fit when he finds out she’s engaged- even though she’s a twenty one year old adult! She’s emotionally unprepared for his return, and so she avoids him while she sorts out her feelings. And instead of respecting this, what does Travis do? He STALKS her. He follows her to a bar and sings a love song while staring her in the eyes. Blah blah blah, more boring stuff happens, and then she starts hanging out with him-as friends!
DOES EVERYONE HEAR THAT? SHE EXPLICITLY STATED THAT THEY WERE JUST FRIENDS, AND TRAVIS CONTINUES TO MAKE SEXUAL AND ROMANTIC ADVANCES TOWARDS HER THAT SHE VERY CLEARLY DOES NOT WANT!
Now, let’s talk about the hard on scene. Travis gets an erection talking to Cate, and it just made me very uncomfortable because he was making it very obvious that he had one. Please read the part where I scream at you through the internet by using all caps again.
DESPITE ALL OF THIS, TRAVIS DOES THE DUMBEST THING EVER AND DECIDES THAT IN ORDER TO WIN HER BACK, HE IS GOING TO PROPOSE TO HER IN FRONT OF HER FIANCÉE. HE GOES THROUGH WITH THIS! AND THEN HE BREAKS HER FIANCEE’S NOSE. THE FIANCÉE WASN’T EVEN MAD ABOUT IT.
Then, at the end, he comes to the realization that it’s all Cate’s fault for trying to be friends and that they can never be friends. I just can’t with this character. He’s insufferable. Don’t read this book. I’m not even sure why I gave it a one. Probably because I found the proposal scene hilarious. If you do read this book- just skip everything else and read the proposal scene. It’s preposterous. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
- Aliena
astronomica's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
janewhitehurst's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this on CD, and found myself looking forward to every car ride. Noggin is narrated by a 17 year old boy, Travis. He had terminal cancer and signed up for an experimental program which could potentially bring him back from the dead. When his cancer was unbearable, he had his head removed and cryogenically frozen. 5 years later, technology allows for it to be thawed and reattached to a donors body. The problem is, when he comes back, all of his friends are now in their 20s and he still 17, his parents have been grieving his death for five years, and he is now famous for undergoing the process. Everything is strange and hard for Travis, but the narration is funny and sweet and the book is really believable somehow. It's well written enough that the strangeness of the premise almost seems normal by the end.