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34.2k reviews for:
Аристотел и Данте откриват тайните на Вселената
Деница Райкова, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Бенджамин Алире Саенц
4.33 AVERAGE
34.2k reviews for:
Аристотел и Данте откриват тайните на Вселената
Деница Райкова, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Бенджамин Алире Саенц
4.33 AVERAGE
This book totally deserved the hype and awards it got. The writing was beautiful and captured so much emotions in them. They were raw and real and greatly impacted me. One of the most mind blowing read for me to this date.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was so beautiful and well-written i just loved it so much, oh my
i just re read this book after 6 yrs. wow. i didnt even realise it had been so long, i thought i was the same age as ari and dante when i originally read this but no, goodreads says i read it all the way back in 2019. i was 12 yrs old when i read this, 3 months out from my 13th birthday.
there was a point where i re read this book but i dont remember when it was exactly. when i was 15, maybe. i dont remember it very well. all i know is this is my 3rd time reading it.
i didnt remember everything, not quite. i remembered more of the start than the end. i cried a few times, hard. 6 yrs on and i still feel so much like ari, and some parts dante too. that uncontrollable anger that ari holds feels so familiar, even though ive gotten better at managing it these days. it reminds me of when i was 15, 16, 17. mr saenz has crafted such an incredible encapsulation of what it means to be an angry, miserable teenager. or growing up as one. the tides of intense emotion that feel like the world is crashing in on you, mixed in with long stretches of boredom that blur into the background. how time feels like it distorts around the things you care about and the things you dont. i liked that a lot about the book, the way time passes in such a fluid and dynamic way. it really does feel like a memory.
i also liked the casual, 'stream of consciousness' style of writing that the book has. i liked it a lot. it truly feels like youre in ari's head the whole time, you really get to think like how he thinks, and it makes the whole thing a lot more relatable. you empathise with him more. or maybe thats just because i see so much of myself in him. who knows.
i dont relate to dante to quite the same emotional extent, but i do love him as a character. i want to be more like him, honestly. more open, more artistic, more loving, more kind. im already an artist and a writer, and at times i do get over emotional, but i dont think im anywhere near as kind as dante is. i hope i can be, someday.
dante also says something in one of his chicago letters about how some books are read just to be enjoyed, not analysed. for me, this is one of those books. there is a lot that could be analysed here, for sure. but i just enjoy spending time with everyone. ari, dante, and their parents - lilly, jaime, sam, soledad. i love all of them. though, lilly and sam (aris mom & dantes dad) are definitely stand outs for me compared to jaime and soledad (aris dad & dantes mom). still, i love them all. i love experiencing this journey with all of them, time and time again.
6 yrs on, and this is still my favourite book ever.
there was a point where i re read this book but i dont remember when it was exactly. when i was 15, maybe. i dont remember it very well. all i know is this is my 3rd time reading it.
i didnt remember everything, not quite. i remembered more of the start than the end. i cried a few times, hard. 6 yrs on and i still feel so much like ari, and some parts dante too. that uncontrollable anger that ari holds feels so familiar, even though ive gotten better at managing it these days. it reminds me of when i was 15, 16, 17. mr saenz has crafted such an incredible encapsulation of what it means to be an angry, miserable teenager. or growing up as one. the tides of intense emotion that feel like the world is crashing in on you, mixed in with long stretches of boredom that blur into the background. how time feels like it distorts around the things you care about and the things you dont. i liked that a lot about the book, the way time passes in such a fluid and dynamic way. it really does feel like a memory.
i also liked the casual, 'stream of consciousness' style of writing that the book has. i liked it a lot. it truly feels like youre in ari's head the whole time, you really get to think like how he thinks, and it makes the whole thing a lot more relatable. you empathise with him more. or maybe thats just because i see so much of myself in him. who knows.
i dont relate to dante to quite the same emotional extent, but i do love him as a character. i want to be more like him, honestly. more open, more artistic, more loving, more kind. im already an artist and a writer, and at times i do get over emotional, but i dont think im anywhere near as kind as dante is. i hope i can be, someday.
dante also says something in one of his chicago letters about how some books are read just to be enjoyed, not analysed. for me, this is one of those books. there is a lot that could be analysed here, for sure. but i just enjoy spending time with everyone. ari, dante, and their parents - lilly, jaime, sam, soledad. i love all of them. though, lilly and sam (aris mom & dantes dad) are definitely stand outs for me compared to jaime and soledad (aris dad & dantes mom). still, i love them all. i love experiencing this journey with all of them, time and time again.
6 yrs on, and this is still my favourite book ever.
when i started this book, i noticed that the cover was filled with stamps from the various awards it received and i couldn’t understand why it won all these awards but then as i kept diving into ari’s world, i got my answer…i would also have loved to relate to this book a lot lesser than i did.
ari was so simple and complicated in the stupid ways that human beings tend to be, they feel a lot of things and they talk a lot but rarely do they speak on what matters. dante was a fresh breathe of air, different, unique and so true to himself, they completed each other. i think we all need to be heard. heard and understood by at least one person in our life.
be loved, despite our flaws and differences.
if there wasn’t something wrong with all of us, would we be real?
ari was so simple and complicated in the stupid ways that human beings tend to be, they feel a lot of things and they talk a lot but rarely do they speak on what matters. dante was a fresh breathe of air, different, unique and so true to himself, they completed each other. i think we all need to be heard. heard and understood by at least one person in our life.
be loved, despite our flaws and differences.
if there wasn’t something wrong with all of us, would we be real?
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Was good but omg the slow burn it couldn’t get any slower
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Fantastic book, but I wanted MORE of that ENDING Mr. Sáenz.
I did really enjoy this, although I did have some problems with some part of it. It was overall a very sweet, earnest story, and I very much enjoyed the characters and their viewpoints, as well as appreciating the realism behind it all.
That being said, while the author had many a beautiful sentence that could easily be taken out of context and put in a very nice tumblr post of interlinked quotes, the rest of the writing was repetitive. I know that it worked well to portray Ari's thoughts and feelings, but after a while it just gets irritating. There's too much of it and it repeats too much in almost every single chapter.
Also, the transphobia sucks, and while I could understand it more if it was written just from the perspective of one character being a transphobe, the way the scene is written clearly shows an author bias, even if it's brief.
That being said, while the author had many a beautiful sentence that could easily be taken out of context and put in a very nice tumblr post of interlinked quotes, the rest of the writing was repetitive. I know that it worked well to portray Ari's thoughts and feelings, but after a while it just gets irritating. There's too much of it and it repeats too much in almost every single chapter.
Also, the transphobia sucks, and while I could understand it more if it was written just from the perspective of one character being a transphobe, the way the scene is written clearly shows an author bias, even if it's brief.