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Janne Teller
Nothing
Title: Nothing
Author: Janne Teller
Format: ebook
Language: English
Pages: 240
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, 1265702400
ISBN: 1416998799
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 7.6 MB
Download: allowed
Description
When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his
classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not
even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children
decide to give up things of importance. The pile starts with the superficial—a fishing rod, a
new pair of shoes. But as the sacrifices become more extreme, the students grow increasingly
desperate to get Pierre-Anthon down, to justify their belief in meaning. Sure to prompt intense
thought and discussion, Nothing—already a treasured work overseas—is not to be
missed.
Insightful reviews
Elyse: ZERO STARS..... (less than ZERO)!
Shame on this author! This book is creepy-creepy-creepy!
Disturbing and irritating.
NOTE: I would NEVER suggest this book for ANYONE of ANY age to read. --I read a few reviews who wrote SPOIL ALERT before writing more of what they had to say.
However, 'nothing' they could say would spoil this book anymore than its ALREADY SPOILED. I
could tell you every little ugly-nasty-yucky detail about this book ---in 5 minutes if you are really
THAT curious ---(ask me if you need to know) ---but don't waste your time -or money supporting
this book. That is MY STRONG OPINION! (I know I'm just one person here---but I feel VERY
STRONG about this).
I have no problem with the 'concept' the philosophical question of whether life has meaning or
not ---(by 7th grade kids) --- I think its a little silly for adults to debate this question. --but this book can't handle this 'question' without manipulation. (shock you to keep reading???)
----YUCK YUCK YUCK! --but this book offers NOTHING of VALUE!!! The BEST part of the book is the title: *NOTHING*!!!!
REALLY---the author should be ashamed of herself. This is her best writing contribution??? I'm
ANGRY about this book. I'm angry its getting 'awards' --- (something is very wrong in our world
if this book is getting awards).
I would NOT want my 7th grade child to read it. Its WAY to violent. (also, no consequences for
the crimes of these kids). ---And ---as an adult--I do not need this book either!
WHY??? WHY?? WHY??? do we need books like this TODAY....with all the 'already' horrific
brutal killings of 'children' in the news today?
This book makes NO positive difference AT ALL!!!
Sesana: When picking up Nothing, a reader needs to be prepared to suspend their disbelief an
extraordinary amount for what is meant to be a realistic, contemporary story. A young (13-14)
boy decides that nothing means anything, so he decides to spend his days in a tree yelling what
are, in translation, irritating slogans about how nothing means anything. His parents and
teachers? Apparently content to let him stay throughout the winter. His classmates? Actually
deeply bothered by him, instead of finding him simply weird and annoying. So deeply bothered
that they decide to gather things that do mean something, so they can prove he's wrong. You
need to be able to accept all of that to even have a hope of making it through the story.
I finished the book, knowing that the plot was absurd and unrealistic in the extreme, mostly out
of morbid fascination. It starts small, with one teen demanding a greater sacrifice from another.
And so on, and so on, in a bizarre and grotesque display of one-upsmanship. It's very, very
difficult to get through. The end result of all this is... nothing. The pile of meaning gains them
nothing, costs them much, and has alarmingly few consequences. I'm not even sure what the
author was trying to say about meaning. Maybe all she was trying to say is that children
(people?) can do some very nasty things to each other.
The style used here didn't work for me. It was broken, oddly repetitive, and detached. (An
example, describing a friend's blue hair: "Blue. Bluer. Bluest." A pattern repeated far too often.)
But this is a translation. How much of this is the original author, and how much the translator?
And does it work better in the original Danish? I couldn't say.
Nothing does have the saving grace of being a short, quick read. It's a small, thin book, with lots
of white space, and morbid fascination can really increase my page count. But in the end, that
morbid fascination was all I got out of it.
Meli: Una lectura rápida pero en absoluto sencilla. Es un libro crudo que requiere que el lector
haga más que leerlo, tiene que procesarlo para comprenderlo, es muy simbólico, muy
metafórico, muy existencialista.
No es una lectura agradable, dejando de lado los grandes temas que cuestiona, es un libro
perturbador, morboso y macabro. Pasa de ser una búsqueda cruel pero inocente del "el
significado" a una cada vez más oscura y retorcida, hasta lo criminal.
Me dio el mismo sentimiento de impotencia, disgusto y desagrado mezclado con interés
autentico que historias como La ola.
Le pongo cuatro estrellas pero son tres y media... y la puntuación es simbólica, quiero algo
intermedio, porque no sé realmente cómo puntuarlo.
Camila: Me gustó. los angeles verdad es que tuve/ tengo problemas al querer decir algo sobre
él...Creo que es por ciertos puntos.En principio, tenía muchas, muchas expectativas, y l. a.
verdad creo que no las satisface del todo.Segundo, mi maldita imaginación. Siempre me
imagino todo lo que al ultimate termina pasando, y eso le saca l. a. sorpresa y los angeles
emoción.Al terminar no entendía bien si me gustaba o si no. Sabía que no lo odiaba ni que lo
amaba.Así que me puse a leer las opiniones de los demás y vi que hay tantos a los que les
gusta, les encanta, como aquellos que lo odian, que les da "asco".Noté que muchos a los que
les gustaba, decían que entendían lo que planteaba Pierre, que algunas veces se plantearon
las mismas cosas, y eso me sirvió para darme cuenta el por qué de mi no decisión.Nunca me
sentí así. Nunca pensé esas cosas. Vamos, sí las pensé ante algunas situaciones, pero nunca
tan así. l. a. mayoría de mi vida no lo pienso. No puedo identificarme con él. Por lo que no me
generó esa cosa de necesitar filosofar, que creo a muchos sí y que es el punto clave de que
sea.Pero tampoco me identifiqué con lo otros chicos. Todo el tiempo pensaba, por qué se
molestan tanto en demostrarle lo contrario a Pierre? Allá él, es tema suyo. No se dan cuenta de
es en vano hacer todo lo que quieren hacer, que él ya tiene su filosofía y no van a poder contra
eso?Lo leí en nada, por qué si me generó querer ver hasta dónde iban a llegar con esas ideas.
Me asustó por momentos. Pero no me sorprendió. No llegaron a sorprenderme con lo que se
les ocurría. Sí aquello sobre cosas de las que uno desconoce, claro. Pero en línea general,
no.A pesar de todo no me permito clasificarlo como malo, porque no lo es. Trata cuestiones de
l. a. vida importantes, pero desde puntos con los que a mi no logró identificarme.Pero tampoco
me hizo "reafirmar" cosas que pensaba.Todavía no entiendo si quiere dejarte una buena
concept o no. Me dejó confundida. Todo tuvo más claridad en los angeles carta de los angeles
autora que en el libro en sí.Sin embargo lo recomiendo, de hecho tengo una par de personas a
las cual creo que les va a gustar.Es raro, pero en esa rareza tiene, haciéndole los angeles
contra a su nombre, un ALGO.
Christina Wilder: This ebook is natural nihilism, which means it truly is profoundly fucked up. you
are both going to like it or hate it, and it'll most likely offend you, yet I do imagine it truly is
worthy a read.
Ricki: it's very tough to price a ebook that's brilliantly written, yet completely disturbing. i've got
many books i need to learn and evaluation correct now, yet i ended my booklet assignments to
learn this one after an outstanding buddy published she was once presently analyzing this, and
one hour later, she began swearing in her development reviews on GoodReads. Pierre Anthon
walks out of the school room and climbs a plum tree. He yells all the way down to his fellow
classmates, "It's all a waste of time [...] every thing starts off basically to end. the instant you
have been born you start to die. that is the way it is with everything."Pierre's classmates wish
him to come back down from the tree, in order that they got down to create a heap of meaning.
They choose to surrender anything that implies the main to them. after they observe that not
anyone will hand over their so much significant possession, they take turns finding out for every
other.This chilling allegory made me regularly cringe. i used to be pressured to chortle in
components simply because i could not recover from how twisted Teller's brain may perhaps
be. I completely imagine it merits to be a Printz honor booklet and Batchelder honor book.
simply because whatever is stressful doesn't suggest it may get a low rating, foolish reviewers!
there have been elements that have been unbelievable, however it is not intended to be taken
literally. Also, a number of the reviewers appear to have forgotten that it is a translation. even
though the characters are thirteen, i feel this is often meant for top schoolers or adults. while
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" used to be released, many people canceled their subscriptions
to the hot Yorker. It was once banned from a number of schools. This booklet jogs my memory
loads of that tale since it makes use of uncomfortable plot issues to make lasting which means
for the reader.
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