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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I wasted my time with this one. I'm so so disappointed.
I wanted to love it, but it got weird about a third of the way in.
While I loved the format of this book and the structure, I felt like there were so many serious and important topics that were completely brushed over by this book. I don’t feel that our protagonist actually learned anything from his adventure. “Everything turned out okay in the end!” is not how a domestic violence, suicide, almost murder story is supposed to go, especially being called YA realistic fiction. I didn’t find much sympathy for the protagonist as he seems to only care about himself and the rest of the characters felt underdeveloped. Not really something I see myself recommending.
This book is an intriguing read. It's about curiosity, discovery, family, and the stories of the truth we never know. Plus it's a pretty epic trip around the country with an unreliable narrator. There's just so much to this book and the stories of the Arthur Louis Pullmans and just a great read.
I highly recommend this book if it’s on your radar. This book was beautiful in so many ways, especially with so many beautiful quotes sprinkled in. I felt the story paid off in the end and we reached a heartbreaking but resolute conclusion. I think Arthur Louis Pullman the Third and the readers needed that after such a long mysterious filled journey. I honestly could not guess what was going to happen and it definitely kept me coming back for more. I loved so many aspects of this book and it was such a refreshing read. I’ve never quite read something like this and while I picked this up on my own accord, I feel like this would be a great book for high school students to read. I’m currently a high school student and I feel more books like this should be given to us to read and enjoy. This book will most likely stay with me for some time as I digest all the messages that lay within it. Again, I highly recommend this book and I hope you love it as much as I did!
Beautifully written.
My grandma passed away almost 6 years ago. This book brought me so much of her back. It reminded me of learning about who she was as a person and as my grandma while I was as old as Arthur.
I loved every second spent reading it. I felt Arthur’s pain, and anger, and apathy, and depression and overflowing love while still figuring out who I was. The poems were beautiful and I was in tears more often than I expected to be.
Thank you Samuel Miller!
My grandma passed away almost 6 years ago. This book brought me so much of her back. It reminded me of learning about who she was as a person and as my grandma while I was as old as Arthur.
I loved every second spent reading it. I felt Arthur’s pain, and anger, and apathy, and depression and overflowing love while still figuring out who I was. The poems were beautiful and I was in tears more often than I expected to be.
Thank you Samuel Miller!
I actually found myself really enjoying this book, which lately, that’s saying a lot. Really impressive for a debut novel - would recommend.
It was very difficult for me to make it through the book. There were many parts that I didn’t understand and I was becoming extremely frustrated and didn’t want to finish.
I didn’t understand the conductor speeches and why they were so important, I felt that those could have been left out. We don’t find their importance until the very end, which still to me was kind of confusing.
I also feel like there were a lot of characters to keep track of it and it was almost too much. There was also a lot of fillers of information that I felt like were not very pertinent.
However, I enjoyed Arthur the 3rd character development. I enjoyed his story a lot, and his lessons from trauma, heartbreak, growing, and understanding yourself. It’s very unfortunate that his mental health was such a small part in this book, because I feel like it could have been a great opportunity to explore it more.
I enjoyed the history lesson, although I wish there would have been some info about that in the book description. You pick up a book thinking it’s all life adventure, only to find out it has a huge political and historical aspect to it.
I didn’t understand the conductor speeches and why they were so important, I felt that those could have been left out. We don’t find their importance until the very end, which still to me was kind of confusing.
I also feel like there were a lot of characters to keep track of it and it was almost too much. There was also a lot of fillers of information that I felt like were not very pertinent.
However, I enjoyed Arthur the 3rd character development. I enjoyed his story a lot, and his lessons from trauma, heartbreak, growing, and understanding yourself. It’s very unfortunate that his mental health was such a small part in this book, because I feel like it could have been a great opportunity to explore it more.
I enjoyed the history lesson, although I wish there would have been some info about that in the book description. You pick up a book thinking it’s all life adventure, only to find out it has a huge political and historical aspect to it.
I breezed through this amazing story. It's big - loss, connections, time, memory, mystery, love and regret. I loved the progression and how information is parsed out over time. Plus, I love when books analyze other books - it's so meta and genius (if it's done well, which it is here).
Bonus: it's a traveling/journey story, which I have a big heart for.
Bonus: it's a traveling/journey story, which I have a big heart for.