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Jesse Andrews

Författare till Jag och Earl och tjejen som dör

8 verk 3,277 medlemmar 159 recensioner

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Jesse Andrews is an American author and screenwriter. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduated from Schenley High School and Harvard University. His debut novel, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, won the Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction when it was published in 2012. Andrews wrote visa mer the feature-film adaptation of his novel, also entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance film festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Foto taget av: Me & Earl & the Dying Girl at the Montclair Film Festival, May 2015 By Montclair Film Festival - NEG_8116, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40220636

Verk av Jesse Andrews

Jag och Earl och tjejen som dör (2012) 2,801 exemplar
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Munmun (2018) 140 exemplar
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Födelsedag
1982-09-15
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Bostadsorter
Berkeley, California, USA
Utbildning
Harvard University

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ZERO stars

From the book jacket: ME My name is Greg Gaines. I am seventeen. I am the one who wrote this book. … EARL Earl Jackson is the only person who is even sort of my friend. We make mediocre films together. … DYING GIRL During my senior year, my mom forced me to become friends with a girl who had cancer. This brought about the destruction of my entire life.

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I wish this had brought about the destruction of this book. He comes off as being about 10 years old, not seventeen. His “humor” is juvenile, mostly related to bathroom and bodily functions. His attempts at self-deprecation were just sad and sometimes even disturbing. I kept reading because it had some rave reviews, and I thought it might get better. (It didn’t.) I finished it only because it satisfied a few challenges.

A complete waste of time, IMHO.
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BookConcierge | 130 andra recensioner | Mar 19, 2024 |
This was the strangest book that I've ever read and I think I'm still processing it.
 
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lmed739 | 13 andra recensioner | Dec 27, 2023 |
I was incredibly conflicted about this book. On the one hand, I really admire the originality of the author: the world he creates, where people's size varies depending on how wealthy they are, is incredibly creative, and provides an excellent social commentary as well as an entertaining background. On the other hand, however, I found this book very hard to read.

While I appreciate the thought that must have gone behind inventing a whole new language for the world, I found it incredibly difficult to understand what was being said. Perhaps it was due to the ARC formatting, or maybe that was the actual intention, but too many times I was faced with words smashed together and sentences that just made no sense on a first reading. I had to go back and re-read several times in order to understand what was going on, and that just made it impossible for me to enjoy the book as much as I would have wanted to. I also found the dreamworld to be a tad too complex for my liking, and struggled to understand without re-reading whole passages.

I didn't particularly like the characters, but I feel that may have been the original intention: none of them seem to be particularly likable from the start, with Warner (our narrator) being the only one to seemingly make an effort but ultimately being worn down by his dire circumstances and the exploitation to which he is subject. With unlikeable characters and a plot I struggled to appreciate fully, however, this book soon fell flat for me. I seriously considered DNF'ing multiple times, but ultimately stuck it out in the hopes that it would get better. Alas, for me it didn't.

As I said, I really appreciate the idea behind this, but the execution just didn't work for me.

For this and more reviews, visit Book for Thought.

I received an e-arc of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.
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bookforthought | 13 andra recensioner | Nov 7, 2023 |
Not entirely satisfied with the ending and off put by some of the 'dick' jokes and descriptions, I did enjoy this book by the author of Me, Earl and the Dying Girl. There were some original text devices and the characters were sympathetic. A good YA book.
 
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secondhandrose | 13 andra recensioner | Oct 31, 2023 |

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Verk
8
Medlemmar
3,277
Popularitet
#7,813
Betyg
½ 3.6
Recensioner
159
ISBN
100
Språk
10

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