Brian First itibaren Eshkashem, Afghanistan

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12/25/2024

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2019-11-04 05:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Peter Randa

Just a couple of quick notes about this book: It was intriguing, written with the right balance of emotion and objectivity. I think everyone who lives in New York should read about the life that goes on beneath our streets. I wonder, since the book was written in 1993, whether it has changed much. I suspect it has. There are many descriptions of drug-addicted homeless people from the Upper West Side. The author was brave, not only because she physically put herself in danger but because she descended into a whole other world and had to accurately portray it to our world. She risked not only being killed but being the stupid, young, white girl who got what she deserved for not knowing to stay away. What this book is about: Basically, there are or were "Mole People" although the reality is probably a little different from what you think. There were thousands estimated to be living in subway and train tunnels, sometimes as far as 7 stories below ground. The people's stories she chooses to tell are heartbreaking and simple and complex. Many are drug addicts. Remember, this was the early nineties when heroin was back in form and crack was introduced. Many also have jobs and families. Many make a family out of people they live with. They will defy your expectations as well as confirm your suspicions. Toth also puts their lifestyle in the context of past underground dwellers, talks about conflicts with the police and homeless advocacy organizations and in general tries to give a bigger picture. But the times I was most drawn in was when she was describing the people she met. I love when she encounters "Sam" the mayor of a small community who was a social-worker above ground and quotes Walt Whitman. What I got from this book: Living underground is freedom and abuse, safety and danger, lucidity and insanity.

2019-11-04 07:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cleartone

Woah. When I was at my library, browsing through the YOUTH FICTION A - N section for Such a Pretty Girl (which I now know is banned...what the hell?) and saw How It Ends, I absent-mindlessly threw it into my arms, thinking, 'Eh.' I mean, the summary makes this novel look like a story about some foolish teenage girl and her boyfriend who doesn't care enough, and to keep it interesting, they added a dying grandmother to keep readers crying. Hey, it was my first MTV novel. I would say I didn't know what to expect, but that's a lie. I expected some fairy-tale relationship with a happy ending and lots of sex. Trust me, though, this novel was NOT it. Laura Wiess is a genius, if not for her general plots (where does she come up with this stuff), then for her characters and the way she can include ten stories in one book without making your brain slowly melt. By the end of this book, I didn't know what story affected me most, let alone which one was supposed to affect me most. Hell, I didn't even know which one was supposed to be the main idea. Let's run a list of the possibilities, shall we? 1. Hanna's school/love life. 2. Helen's life after meeting Lon. 3. Seth's life. 4. Jesse's life. 5. Her parent's life. 6. Helen's life prior to meeting Lon. 7. The Doehm's life. 8. Margarete Doehm's life prior to...well, you know. The psycho-ness. 9. Dr. Doehm's life priot to becoming a psycho. 10. Louise Bell Closson's life. See what I mean? It's a lot to think about, and took me a while to read. So throughout the novel, I tried to make sense of my feelings towards it. It's okay. I hate it. What the hell? I can basically feel the crappy ending already... No way. What's up with all these plots? Laura is either a genius, or has some weird anxiety disorder. It wasn't until I read the last page that I realized that all these things are what make it a worthwile novel. The indecisiveness is how I know that this author knew what she was doing. Bravo, Wiess. And while I know many of you hated the ending, I hate to say that I loved it. Well, not that I was smiling and feeling all that great when it happened (because if you do feel that way, you must have issues), but because I felt it was the perfect close, and the only way this story would have been tied off true to it's message: not everything turns out to be a fairy tale.

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