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Mar 18, 2018 Dana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: santa-monica-book-club

This is one of those rare cases where the movie, well, the show, is better than the book. I didn't really realize this until my book club met to discuss it. I was the only one who'd seen the show. As I read, I filled in all the extra information from the show that the book did not provide--backstory on the other characters besides Hannah and Clay. In the book, Clay listens to the tapes straight through in one day, and the other drama that takes place on the show isn't there. We never meet Hannah ...more

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Apr 26, 2017 Isabel Jazmín rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Lo que más me agobia de toda la historia de Hannah es el pobre y lamentable papel que juegan los adultos: sí, ella es una puberta confundida y cuando finalmente trata de acercarse y pedir ayuda (una vez muy directa y la otra indirectamente) los adultos brillan por su falta de tacto y por su falta de empatía. De la misma manera que cuando leí El club de los perdedores de Lorena Amkie, me gustaría no convertirme en ese tipo de adulto y poder tener la sensibilidad suficiente cuando alguno de los pu ...more

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Feb 18, 2015 Robyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audience-ya, fiction-general

Clay Jensen's life was turned upside down the day he learned his crush Hannah Baker had committed suicide. But things are about to get even more difficult when he discovers a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah before she died. Thirteen tapes -each about one person who said or did something that contributed to Hannah's decision to end her life. As Clay listens to the tapes he discovers a side of Hannah, and his classmates, he never knew, and he must come to terms with the reality that she f ...more

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Jan 30, 2017 Piepie | The Napping Bibliophile marked it as did-not-finish · review of another edition

DNF - p. 92

Stopping because I'm not interested anymore and am kind of fed up with the story. Hannah seems super petty and really selfish and conceited. ...more

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