Turtles All the Way Down
- Dina O.
- Nov 5, 2017
- 2 min read
Title: Turtles All the Way Down
Author: John Green
Edition: Hardcover Dutton Books for Young Readers
Year: 2017
Pages: 304
Rating: 5
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
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Oh it beats Paper Towns. It totally does.
I couldn't comprehend my thoughts after finishing this mothermasterpiece.
This book talks about mental illness at its best as well as John Green being at his best when he stated to write this book. It's amazing, okay, guys. I wasn't halfway in and have highlighted 2972749 parts, probably more than the important events that ever happened in my life.
Before we go further, I would like to talk about the cover. Some of you may think, "Wow that's ugly shit," before you even touch the book. Let me tell you this: it's brilliant. It sums up the whole story inside. Some of you may expect the actual real turtles within the book. Sorry to disappoint, but there's only a dinosaur lizard in this book, and none tortoise. But you can always look up on the internet what "Turtles All the Way Down" originally means before you embarrass yourself by shitting about every aspect of this book just because you're annoyingly biased when it comes to John Green. Thank you.
(God, it feels good. Some people are worth the shout.)
Basically this book got me like:
Becasue seriously, both the relationship between David and Aza & Aza and Daisy are so !!!!!!!!!enlightening. Although I was terrible irked toward the mid book when Daisy being such an idiot bitch toward Aza.
But I really like the concept in here. And how John Green didn't describe David as a rich asshole that we usually find in YA books. He made him as realistic as possible: having a pet, hating the world, falling for an ordinary girl he met at scout. He's so realistic that I shed a tear.
I am torn by how Aza copes up with everything because by relating to her words and her feelings only can make my stomach turns upside down. How she's terribly wary of everything and how she wants to abscond her body because she could no longer living with the feeling of being limited in the vastness of universe. I's a f-ing depressing thought and a relatable one.
This book opens my eyes and somehow made me highly grateful with the life that I have. It could be me, living with all the money and fame but zero parentage, t could be me losing a father and never stop thinking about c.diff that possibly takes control of my body, it could be me having a best friend who doesn't know your mother's job or how poor you are that all you basically care about is the attention on the internet. I realized how fucked up the main characters on this book's lives and it just makes this even greater. Especially how it ended, and how Aza's mentality isn't being romanticized at all. Deserves loves.
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