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Thirteen Reasons Why | 
| Author: Jay Asher
Publisher: Razorbill
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1595141715
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ASIN: 1595141715
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
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Product Description
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list. Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
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 Thirteen Reason Why People Die Tragically March 19, 2010
Shevonne A. Polastre (Fairfax, VA)
I subscribe to Audible, and I had two credits to use. "Thirteen Reasons Why" was one of the books that I chose. I've had it in my queue for awhile, but I knew it was time to listen/read it after reading the book description from Amazon.
It made me think that when someone dies tragically (even if it isn't suicide) or is severely depressed, and it isn't due to a nature or murder, there are things that lead up to it getting worse and worse. People's actions (or inaction) causes that person to fall into a hole so deep that any attempt to try to dig themselves out is of no avail. Even when they feel they have made even the tiniest success in getting better, someone or something comes to push them right back down. They can't even face themselves in the mirror because all they see looking back at them is a broken reflection staring right back at them.
This is a book that should be read in middle schools and high schools around the world. There are so many times that people see someone who is suffering, and don't do anything about it. Be it cause they are afraid about what others will think, or because of their own selfishness, they allow that person to slip away. Maybe if people learn early enough, people can be saved from themselves.
It's exactly what happened to my sister. She didn't commit suicide like Hannah, but every day, someone was there to make her world crumble even more around her. After coming back from war, where she saw things that no human should ever have to see, and she was denied the right to be with her family, she had to go back to a place where all she found was people who were trying to sabotage her out of jealousy, guys trying to constantly take advantage of her, and so-called friends who abandoned her at the first sight of trouble. I hope that those people wake up every day, and feel the guilt and pain that they caused my sister. I really do.
She didn't have her family with her to help and protect her. Yes, we tried. Talking to her every day via chat, webcam, phone, but it wasn't the same as us being there to fend off these vicious people who hide behind their masks. Yes, masks! All she wanted was for someone to help her, and all they did was attack. It seems like things in the book just don't happen in school. People continue this behavior even years later. In the military, it seems to run rampant.
After reading this book, and constantly feeling like my heart was going to rip at any moment, I realize that I have to do what I plan. I do not want someone else suffering the way Hannah, my sister, and so many others have.
It's definitely a book that everyone should read, even if only once.
An very emotional and gripping story March 18, 2010
Chica Review (Panama)
This book was recommended to me by a friend of mine, after I read the premise of the book I was very intrigue not until my birthday last year my cousin was kind enough to give me his credit card in order for me to buy three books and I took the opportunity to buy it.
Until this year that I finally sat down and read it and boy let me tell you that after I was done reading it, I couldn't help but to think about stuff that happen to me back then when I was in high school.
I cannot say it was 100% a picture perfect read, this book at some points is very frustrating but in a good way but same way frustrating because you know what happens in the end and as much you want to save Hannah is too late. This is book is about the 13 reasons why she ended her life and she wants those 13 peoples to know why she did it.
Jay Asher push the envelope with this story and dears you to read chapter by chapter each story, of each person that in someway helped her to end her life so abruptly but he doesn't it give it away easily, each story is part of the puzzle and in the end when you find out what really happens it can leaves your in tears.
I like the fact that book was narrated in two points of view one from Clay, a boy who honestly liked Hannah and the other through the tapes that Hannah left behinds. There were times I could literally feel the pain that Clay was feeling and how terrified he was about the idea that he actually may have done something to make Hannah make such a regrettable decision.
This is actually one of the must shocking books I've read in a long time and I'm glad I did, and please don't doubt to read it. I can guarantee to you that is not going to be easy but you would finding very emotive, haunting but very a satisfying read.
blown out of my mind March 15, 2010
reads to much
this book gave a new look to death. many books i read don't change my opinion or stuck a emotion but this one did. this book was sad. you realize in this book that death is permanet and dosen't give you a second chance. you see that the little things can make caos. this is WOW, even though this is a book about hannah, this relates to clay also. when you read this book you feel yourself being untangle as the story does.
We All Can Learn Something From This Book March 14, 2010
G. Stackler (Los Osos, Ca. USA)
The book is heartbreaking and really enlightening. Every seemingly small gesture or action by another person in Hannah's life led to her suicide. While the ultimate subject, suicide, is depressing, there is a lot to learn from this book. The offhanded jokes, comments and labels that we throw out so thoughtlessly can snowball into a huge mess and we need to realize the power we have in each other's lives. What is that phrase? "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." We need to stand up when we see wrongs and we need to take the risk & reach out when we see people in pain.
I loved the book because of its message and am really glad that it was geared toward teens. They need to get that message more than any other age group that I can think of.
So Good March 10, 2010
BizzyB (CT)
This book hooked me from the very beginning and every time I learned a new "reason why" I knew I was that much closer to the end and I didn't want it to end! Each of the characters bring something new to the story and each new "why" helps you put together the pieces to the puzzle. Definitely read this!
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