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tim is an albino who falls for a girl who loves the snow.
duncan inherits tim's room, and tim's tragedies.
reminiscent of john green's looking for alaska, mixed with jay asher's thirteen reasons why with some dead poet's society and yet entirely different from all, i closed the book not sure how i felt. i still don't know how i feel. strangely melancholy, but also appreciative? i felt very much like this was tim's story and not duncan's, and yet then at the end, by donut day, duncan is there and ...more
duncan inherits tim's room, and tim's tragedies.
reminiscent of john green's looking for alaska, mixed with jay asher's thirteen reasons why with some dead poet's society and yet entirely different from all, i closed the book not sure how i felt. i still don't know how i feel. strangely melancholy, but also appreciative? i felt very much like this was tim's story and not duncan's, and yet then at the end, by donut day, duncan is there and ...more
If that wasn't a totally unnecessary and useless frame device, I don't know what is. I also don't know why I kept reading this book, because it is boring and not interesting in the slightest. Nothing happens at all.
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This is a good book...but it was very much not what I expected it to be. With the boarding school and emphasis on the traditional senior event, along with the very attractive object-of-the-main-character's-obsession girl with a jerky boyfriend, it is shadowy of Looking for Alaska. With the retelling of a tragedy to another party through use of recorded audio, it s part 13 Reasons Why. But it didn't have the excellent humor contrast of LFA or the emotional payoff of either. The "tragedy" was not
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I liked this book. The narrative structure is different. It's told by a former student of the Irving School to a current student through mp3 files. The story told intrigued me enough that I stayed up half the night to see hoe The Tragedy Paper would unfold. Fair warning, the ending wasn't what I expected. I wasn't let down but I was a bit disappointed.
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This was ok. If definitely kept me reading, but I thought it was lazy. I mostly kept reading because I knew some big giant thing was going to happen, and the main character kept saying, "OMG! It's so suspenseful! Something's going to happen!"
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Very interesting setting and characters, great classroom connections.
Jan 03, 2013
Nicole
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Jun 28, 2013
Brandi
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it was amazing
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