Buddy Read; [[ August]]

[Aakash]

:P

[Nigham]

Welcome to the new members in Buddy Read thread. Hope you will like it here. :)

Book Name: Thirteen Reasons Why?

Reading Task for Monday- Read the following chapter and cassettes:

YESTERDAY - ONE HOUR AFTER SCHOOL
CASSETTE 1: SIDE A
CASSETTE 1 : SIDE B
CASSETTE 2 : SIDE A

HAPPY READING... :)

[Aakash]

#Nigham Thanks! :)

have fun All of you!!! Let's experience it!!

[Salman]

@nigham you didn't put any spoiler alert in the spoilers in which you told me who gonna die...
that pissed me off
i mean really.

[Salman]

from now on even we know other person read the book we will use
(view spoiler)[... (hide spoiler)]

just to be sure.. its worst kind of feeling when your book got spoiled. intentionally or unintentionally. doesnt't matter

[Salman]

Nigham wrote: "Thanks for telling me... Have edited the above comment. :p (Add an alert in your comment... is say pahly k Salman aay... :p)

≤ 2000 XD"

hahhahhaa

bari chilak ho.

[Aasia]

Hey guys, i m listening to the audiobook of this novel and i find it fun. I suggest u give the audiobook a try. Anyways Happy Reading you All!

[Salman]

Aasia wrote: "Hey guys, i m listening to the audiobook of this novel and i find it fun. I suggest u give the audiobook a try. Anyways Happy Reading you All!"

i downloaded it.

[Aakash]

@Salman GoodLuck! :) :D

[Aasia]

Mortimer J. Adler asked readers to hold their criticism till the end of the book. But since its a fiction i m taking the liberty of criticizing it. It was a potential idea but up till Cassete 3B the writer is being too shallow! It could have easily had the psychological drama that the situation is really calling for. For a girl mentally disturbed enough to commit suicide she is quite REASONABLE! I have been to that road when one is tempted to commit suicide but at those times i was mentally shattered and had A LOT OF disorganized thoughts and issues with my life. Well Lets see how the story unfolds! May be there is more to it. Maybe i am jumping to conclusions too soon

[Aakash]

@Aasia O.o we have to go all together!! Please dont read in advance!!! warna no fun!! Sorry we should have mentioned that before!!

[Aasia]

okay :( but it has element of suspense its hard to refrain from reading it. but okay u r absolutely right. I will abide by the rules !

[Aakash]

hehe!! thats true hard to stop!! :)

[Nigham]

Salman wrote:
hahhahhaa
bari chilak ho."

Mera koi kasoor nahi, company ka asar hy. :p

Let me mention that again, "NOBODY IS SUPPOSED TO READ MORE THAN THE ASSIGNED CHAPTERS/CASSETTES".
This is one of the reasons this thread is known as Buddy Read/Group Readings.

[Nigham]

"Jessica, my dear I’d really love to know if you dragged yourself to my funeral. And if you did, did you notice your scar?
And what about you—the rest of you—did you notice the scars you left behind?
No. Probably not.

That wasn’t possible.

Because most of them can’t be seen with the naked eye.

Because there was no funeral, Hannah".

:(

[Aasia]

I believe there can be only two reasons for suicide. To give up life, a life which is precious to even the blind and the crippled, is something extra ordinary and quite unnatural.
So i believe the reason to be either
Mental instability
Or
Lack of faith

And this by no mean is a fact. Its only my point of view. since these days i think brain is working more than my heart. I confess.

So what situations u guys think can drive any person to commit suicide?

She said she is scarred? Arent everyone is scarred in their own way. We are helpless because we hurt people every second of every day. Its hardly in our power to stop ourself from hurting humiliating other. But we all dont commit suicide.

Why do u guys think she did that?

[Aakash]

But the Thing is She is very Confident and is delivering her last speech and is full of straightforwardness along with truth and courage with no fear!! Like She is already destroyed!! Self-destruction or maybe because of those 13 reasons. Or maybe she is doing the vengeance thing doing conspiracy against those person and want them to be dead as well as she is already destructed so no use to live!!

But lets see what happens next!!!

#NIgham Todays work????

[Aakash]

Yeah we do hurt people everyone does but some of us realize that we are doing that and when hurting is more than healing; then self-destruction is better i.e suicide or maybe isolation from the world! and many other choices are there as well!! That's what cells do in our body 2 millions cells die everyday means rbcs in our body to keep us healthy!!

[Nigham]

Today's (Tuesday's) reading task:

Read CASSETTE 2: SIDE B

(Let me know if I should make it more or less.)

[Aakash]

Yep thats true. varies person to person just like our DNA! :P

btw How you define Happiness?? :P

[Aakash]

nah! Its good for today!!! :P Thank you!!! hehe!! :D :P

[Aasia]

Self distruction there you have a new way of looking at suicide atleast i didnt think of this obvious possibilty! Okay let me think some more and then say something about self distruction

[Aasia]

But Amna isnt there always another way? Isn't just our brain just vershadowed every possibilty of getting away. I think she just only believed that she had no other way. Other wise there was a way which i shall propose at the end of the novel in context to her life

[Aasia]

Happiness i think is being content with the present. She was not happy i dont think she could have after all that horrible things people have done to her.

[Aakash]

Please all of you!!! can you give me definition of happiness or being happy by your own, your own way and mar of happiness for you??

[Aakash]

You know when one deiced to suicide????

Only when Death seems more lovely than life!!
Com'n when we think of death always our mind comes across so many things that we have dreamt of and wanna fulfill them and this feelings when comes we get back form suicide!!


BUt If we have no wishes left, no goals and targets and we are just finished then death is a pleasure and lovely thing and then person has no worries no hurdles to finish his/her life!!

گھبرا کے کہتے ہیں کہ ہم مر جائیں گے
مر کے بھی چین نہ پایا تو کدھر جا ئیں گے

[Nigham]

Sorry, it's irrelevant but has anyone read this book, Me Before You???



This was one of the most disturbing novels I've ever read, not that I didn't like it (view spoiler)[but no book ending deserve such flavor of hopelessness. (hide spoiler)]

[Aasia]

I will say it again Akash Hapiness is being content with the present with whatever you have. Lasting and true hapiness cannot be found in the dream of the future nor in the memories of the past. It has to be about Now and Here. I strongly believe it Akash i do. And i can go much further in the here and now

[[deleted user]]

Nope.

[Aasia]

Our soul and its bond to Allah its bond to nature to creations of Allah. This is to me is now and here if you are connected to all of these. This means you are firm on the ground you wont shake and at the same time you are flying in the air to maybe some unknown realities which u can experience but cant express

[Nigham]

Aakash wrote: "You know when one deiced to suicide????

Only when Death seems more lovely than life!!
Com'n when we think of death always our mind comes across so many things that we have dreamt of and wanna fulf..."

@Aakash- So soooo true. Reminded me of some quotes, "Even death has a heart."

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

-Death

[Aakash]

what if I am happy without all those things!! @Zaynah! ;)

so then our definition of happiness are different!!

you are happy cause you have iphone and there is someone who is happy becasue his picture is snapped usin an iphone! ;)

[Aakash]

@aaisa I agree completely with you and my def and yours quiet matches! (y)

[Nigham]

♥ZaynaH wrote:
And no haven't read it. is it good."

Good enough to make you cry... :)

[Aakash]

@nigham I am gonna read that soon!! Thanks for the html!!! :P warna there would have been 7th world war in between us!!! :P :D

[Omaid]

fools are those who think that we are here to enjoy. we're here to be tested and trialed. The one who is content with the decree of Allah, and who's always thankful for whatever blessings he/she has, is on the right direction.

[[deleted user]]

UH HUH

[Aakash]

@Nigham pain demands to be felt!! :D :p

yea thats true I see happpiess in something other than those!! Like said before everyone has his own standards for everything!!

So dont follow the crowd but your heart only then you will be in peace no matter even you have to do suicide after it! ;)

@Aasia!! Yep NAture teaches our thing thats what Buddhism is all about!! stay connected to mother earth! <3

[Nigham]

♥ZaynaH--- Cullen-♥-Eaton-♥-Barnes-♥-Bane-♥-Morgenstern-♥- Landon Carter-♥- Ryan Guzman-♥-Fawad Khan- ---AhmeD♥ wrote: "Nigham wrote: "♥ZaynaH wrote:
And no haven't read it. is it good."

Good enough to make you cry... :)"

i just saw a wlk to remember... ive cried my heart out in fornt of my mom whose just looking ..."

Haha, I'm not going to watch that movie and TFIOS ever just because of their ending.

[Aakash]

A walk to remember is amazing! just amazing! <3

[Nigham]

Aakash wrote: "@nigham I am gonna read that soon!! Thanks for the html!!! :P warna there would have been 7th world war in between us!!! :P :D"

Don't tell me you've read the alert. :P

"Without pain, how could we know joy?" :D

[Omaid]

@sister amna.. i say as long as their is hope one would not suicide. that is true. hopelessness leads to suicide. even if one's life is miserable, the hope that it will all end one day and one would be granted paradise stops one from committing suicide. because then you're place is in hell. Hope for a better afterlife, after a tough one here, keeps you moving on.

[Aakash]

@Omaid I agree!! Surely Allah is the ultimate righteousness!!
And doing what you like is also a part of religion!!![[good things not evil :P]]

[Aakash]

@Nigham

Without tasting bad wine how will you differentiate the good one! :D :P

[Aakash]

Don't judge someone by their situation in which you have never be in, You won't be able to justify it ;)

[Aakash]

@Omaid who remembers to stay still when one is drowning ;) same-wise who cares of hell and paradise when one is completely lost in darkness no one is there for them no one understands them and maybe they are just reserved!! The only way of getting raid seems to end life and that's it!!

[Aakash]

@zaynah!! everyone has problems some are strong and some are weak and they need some support at right time !! :)

[Aakash]

All we need to understand this why someone is acting in that way and not to judge them!!! World would be a happy place I guess!! :)

@Zaynah then you were lucky so much lucky!!!

[Aasia]

True one shouldn't judge people. But people please judge the writer? Are you satisfied with the novel up till now! Discuss please

[Aakash]

@Aasia haha!! you are after author!! this is his first novel I guess!

Was reading Umera's first one its just amazing!