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A review by iris_ymra
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
4.0
'Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.'
'Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.'
'People always talk like there’s a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn’t, at least not for me. I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember.'
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An interesting plot that would definitely make you curious about the whole story about Davis dad, and about how Aza and David relationship will go on, while we know Aza is dealing with her mental health.
This book is narrated from a p.o.v of Aza, so we often got dragged along into her spiral of thought. And Aza's inner thoughts are really maddening, I am not kidding or exaggerate it if I say I am almost feeling crazy myself, like it's triggering and I feel like something inside of me starts crawling. I wanted to scream shut up to her thoughts, but I know I want to finish the book, and so I have to continue reading and so I can't stop her thoughts. So this book, I can say is quite triggering too.
I got the same vibe from this book's characters as The Fault In Our Stars -- not the being having to deal with a terminal illness -- but being how these characters in their relationship, often have their own 'different world' from the real one, we all living in. Like when the are together in real life or through their phones, it's always described that they went into another 'realm' of their own creation.
And I realized too how the author often creates his characters with a smart and intelligent characteristics. And so it made the character development great too.
I love how it ends, like we're not really assured of whether it's really a happy ending or an ending at all. All in all was a relaxing and laid-back read for me, despite the constantly have to deal with Aza's anxiety all along.
'Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.'
'People always talk like there’s a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn’t, at least not for me. I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember.'
______
An interesting plot that would definitely make you curious about the whole story about Davis dad, and about how Aza and David relationship will go on, while we know Aza is dealing with her mental health.
This book is narrated from a p.o.v of Aza, so we often got dragged along into her spiral of thought. And Aza's inner thoughts are really maddening, I am not kidding or exaggerate it if I say I am almost feeling crazy myself, like it's triggering and I feel like something inside of me starts crawling. I wanted to scream shut up to her thoughts, but I know I want to finish the book, and so I have to continue reading and so I can't stop her thoughts. So this book, I can say is quite triggering too.
I got the same vibe from this book's characters as The Fault In Our Stars -- not the being having to deal with a terminal illness -- but being how these characters in their relationship, often have their own 'different world' from the real one, we all living in. Like when the are together in real life or through their phones, it's always described that they went into another 'realm' of their own creation.
And I realized too how the author often creates his characters with a smart and intelligent characteristics. And so it made the character development great too.
I love how it ends, like we're not really assured of whether it's really a happy ending or an ending at all. All in all was a relaxing and laid-back read for me, despite the constantly have to deal with Aza's anxiety all along.