Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (Epub)

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JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.

Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

User’s Reviews

Review “A sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating, glimpse into how it feels to live with mental illness.” – NPRA New York Times Notable Book • A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A TIME Best Book of the Year • A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year • A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year • An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year • A Seventeen Best Book of the Year • A Southern Living Best Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year • A Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection • A BookPage Best Book of the Year • An SLJ Best Book of the Year • An A.V. Club Best Book of the Year • A Bustle Best Book of the Year • A BuzzFeed Best Book of the Year • A Pop Sugar Best Book of the Year • A Vulture Best Book of the Year #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 International BestsellerFeatured on 60 Minutes, Fresh Air, Studio 360, Good Morning America, The TODAY Show“A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control.” —People“Green finds the language to describe the indescribable. . . . A must-read for those struggling with mental illness, or for their friends and family.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A powerful tale for teens (and adults) about anxiety, love and friendship.” —The Los Angeles Times“Wrenching and Revelatory.” —The New York Times“Tender, wise, and hopeful.” —The Wall Street Journal“A new modern classic.” —The Guardian“A thoughtful look at mental illness and a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder that doesn’t ask but makes you feel the constant struggles of its main character.’” —USA Today“Turtles delivers a lesson that we so desperately need right now: Yes, it is okay not to be okay…. John Green has crafted a dynamic novel that is deeply honest, sometimes painful, and always thoughtful.” —Mashable“Green does more than write about; he endeavours to write inside…. No matter where you are on the spiral—and we’re all somewhere—Green’s novel makes the trip, either up or down, a less solitary experience.” —The Globe and Mail“This novel is by far [Green’s] most difficult to read. It’s also his most astonishing. . . . So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung. . . . One needn’t be suffering like Aza to identify with it. One need only be human.” —Jennifer Senior, The New York Times“Green’s most authentic and most ambitious work to date.” —Bustle“An existential teenage scream.” —Vox“Funny, clever, and populated with endearing characters.” —Entertainment Weekly“An incredibly powerful tale of the pain of mental illness, the pressures of youth, and coming of age when you feel like you’re coming undone.” —Shelf Awareness★ “A richly rewarding read…the most mature of Green’s work to date and deserving of all the accolades that are sure to come its way.” —Booklist★ “In an age where troubling events happen almost weekly, this deeply empathetic novel about learning to live with demons and love one’s imperfect self is timely and important.” —Publishers Weekly★ “A deeply resonant and powerful novel that will inform and enlighten readers even as it breaks their hearts. A must-buy.” —School Library Journal Praise for John Green- 50 million books in print worldwide – #1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller#1 USA Today Bestseller#1 International Bestseller★ Michael L. Printz Award Winner★ Michael L. Printz Honor Winner★ Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist★ TIME 100 Most Influential People★ Forbes Celebrity 100★ NPR’s 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels★ TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All TimeCritical acclaim for The Fault in Our Stars: “Damn near genius . . . The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine “This is a book that breaks your heart—not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts.” —The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . A pitch-perfect, elegiac comedy.” —USA Today“[Green’s] voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book.” —NPR.org“John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit.” —The Washington Post “[Green] shows us true love—two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals—and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.” —New York Times Book Review

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I just finished reading it. And I am sitting here crying. I hated it. And I absolutely loved it.Now that you are utterly confused, read on if any one you love struggles with mental illness.I hated this book for a lot of reasons. I hated it because the characters in it bug the crap out of me. Worse than some of the more annoying people in my real life. I hated it because there are things stylistically I wanted from this author, because he is one of my favorite authors, and those things, stylistically, were not really there.I hate it because my greatest fear in life is of spiraling into uncontrollable mental illness, and the book puts you inside the head of someone who has a spiraling mental illness, and it does so with just an eerie amount of accuracy, and I don’t want to be inside that spiral. It is too scary inside that spiral.And I hate this book most of all because some of the people I love most in life, people who truly own parts of my soul, live inside that spiral far too often, and it hurts deep down to be reminded of that. I don’t like to read books that make me hurt. I usually avoid them at all costs. If I start one, and discover it is that kind of book, I don’t often finish it.But this book is by John Green, with whom I have a relationship that is hard to explain. Because so much of the history minutiae I have memorized is from Crash Course videos, he is the voice inside my head when I think of history. He is much smarter than me, which I admire, and a phenomenal writer, which I envy. So I had to finish the book.I absolutely love this book because revealing your inner demons in such vivid reality is incredibly brave, and that makes him a hero in my eyes. John Green suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (which is not ever named in the book, but it is painted in horrifically detailed words throughout). People don’t talk about mental illness enough, but here he is revealing his inmost self. And yes, it is him. He has been doing interviews about it and whatnot. The doctor the protagonist sees in the book is even similarly named to his own doctor, whom he thanks in the acknowledgements. John Green has a credibility with teenagers that is pretty hard to establish, and as a result, millions of teenagers are going to read this book. That might not seem a small thing, but it might mean that perhaps the world will understand mental illness just a little bit better. For that, John Green is my hero. Read at your own risk.And I am still crying.

⭐ I love John Green. Heck, I have a quote from Looking For Alaska tattooed on my arm. But, if you have ever dealt with extreme OCD – don’t read this! I dealt with diagnosed extreme OCD from ages 6-12. You are constantly in the girl’s head. So, her obsessive thoughts become yours and there is no break from it. I was driving myself crazy and my OCD thoughts were increasing. So, if you are easily triggered, don’t read this. If someone wants an insight to how the OCD mind works, it may be worth a read – but I couldn’t even get into the story, let alone the incessant thoughts.

⭐ “I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”It was like reading an autobiography (that someone else wrote for me).Change the fear of bacteria to the fear of losing loved ones, and that is my life.Turtles all the way down.I don’t think there is any other novel I have read in recent past that struct such perfect cord.Favorite Lines:* Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.* You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.* I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.* To be alive is to be missing.* The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really ending.* You’re the storyteller and the story told.* The world is also the stories we tell about it.* I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember.* Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you.* I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn’t possessed by a demon. I was the demon.* What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.* I couldn’t make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.* One of the defining features of parent is that they don’t get paid to love you.* Being vulnerable is asking to get used.* Maybe I am just a lie that I am whispering to myself.* Your now is not your forever.* In some ways, pain is the opposite of language.* Illness is a story told in past tense.* I don’t mind worries. Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.* We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.* Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

⭐ No traditional review of this one…..I just can’t. I got it at school at 11:40 am on release day and finished it at 6:25 pm and it BROKE. MY. HEART.It’s the most powerful and open book about mental illness that I have read, and it’s required reading for everyone, but especially those who don’t understand the intensity of OCD and extreme anxiety. It is unlike any of his other work, but it’s still funny and it’s still so so sad, but it’s also Green’s OWN struggle.Go read his interview with NYT and try to tell me you didn’t want to cry.And if I see even ONE “but it’s not like TFIOS” whiny review…….don’t get me started.Read this book. Work through the discomfort. Honor his pain.

⭐ “But I also had a life, a normal-ish life, which continued. For hours or days, the thoughts would leave me be, and I could remember something my mom told me once: Your now is not your forever. I went to class, got good grades, wrote papers, talked to Mom after lunch, ate dinner, watched television, read. I was not always stuck inside myself, or inside my selves. I wasn’t only crazy.”As someone who has dealt with my own mental illness my entire life, I so appreciated the treatment of mental illness in this book, and the above quote explains why. Yes, this book is about someone with OCD, but it is not only about someone with OCD. It’s about someone with a life, a whole life, and she’s more than her illness, even when it is at its worst.

⭐ Just like there are no words to express pain, there are also no words to describe how I felt reading this book. Since I held my copy in my hands, and opened it and saw the signature in green sharpie, my heart did a tiny dance and I had to read the whole thing. I’m so happy and heart broken at the same time, I know the multitude inside me and around me is going to feel the same way.

⭐ This book was polarizing for me. As a subject matter the view of mental illness from the inside out was so true to life, very powerful, and, yes, heartbreaking. I don’t know if Green has personal experience himself, or with a loved one, or if he just researched impeccably – but it’s a subject that definitely needs light shed on it to promote better empathy and understanding. So in that sense, five stars.************SPOILERS AHEAD***********However, that being said, I felt there wasn’t much of a narrative. The whole trying to get the reward for the missing criminal, who just happens to be the father of a friend from long ago ‘sad camp’ just made no sense to me. The supporting characters didn’t stand out all that much either (hence, why I can’t even remember their names when I started the book last night and finished it this morning) and weren’t terribly likable, either, nor were their motivations understandable.While I did appreciate that he didn’t tie everything up with a happy little bow at the end, but was realistic in showing that, yes, mental illness is something you live with and fight (or don’t) your entire life, but there are still moments of happiness, was great – but her rationale for Aza choosing to write *this* story down didn’t seem to connect to her life as an adult. She chose this particular period of her life to write about because … I was never really clear on that.Because Green’s books are usually so well-written, I can’t help but wonder if he did write from personal experience, and was maybe too close to the subject to write with the clear writer’s eye he usually has.

⭐ There are books that you read and you know you will hear them in your head later, for days, weeks, years. This is that kind of book. Poetry in prose.While reading it I could hear John’s voice speaking through the page..

⭐ Here’s the thing: John Green is an auto-buy for me. I know there was a bit of over-saturation when The Fault in Our Stars came out, and some people have firm (and valid) opinions on Mr. Green. With John Green, I was a little wary because of the success of The Fault in Our Stars. Tbh how could he follow up? Well, he did. While Stars was an exploration of a visible illness, Turtles All the Way Down is an exploration of a hidden disease. I’ve been suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for about six years now. OCD is a hard disease to find in media. When we finally see OCD portrayed, it’s often the over the top neat freak stereotype (see Monk or that chick with Glee).Not this book. From what I understand, John Green suffers from OCD, which makes a ton of sense because he writes OCD exceptionally well. Like it was almost triggering how accurate Aza’s thoughts were. Before I went on medication (s/o to sertraline!) I used to have the same thought spirals. The same obsessions. The same compulsions. I cannot overstate how important this book is for people who have OCD.This book does have weaknesses though. Outside of Aza and Daisy, the characters are pretty forgettable. The mystery aspect was a lot less compelling and exciting than I had hoped.But you know what? I don’t care. This book is beautiful and haunting, and you should read it despite its flaws.

⭐ I’m not usually a fan of YA lit, but I make an exception for John Green.Green is the master of telling a fairly simple, rather implausible, teen story with so many layers of emotion, art, and nuance that his work emerges a masterpiece, timeless and universal. His novels are sweet bubblegum on the surface, with all the complexities and flavors of a glass of wine.Aza, the main character, is an average teenager doing average teenager things while also suffering from anxiety. As someone who struggles with anxiety myself, I found the depiction of her disease incredibly accurate and arresting. I recognized some of my own thoughts and behaviors similar to hers, and it was refreshing to see these on a page, seeing them both for how real and rediculous they are. Green never shames mental illness, but he doesn’t sugarcoat it either. Anxiety is disgusting and insidious, but the sufferers are not. There is hope. This balanced treatment of the issue is incredibly needed in modern society.In light of these deep struggles Aza carries, I found the main plot, the mystery of the disappeared man and the romance with the tortured billionaire kid, a little superficial. I felt that the former was especially poor. I almost forgot about it, then it was brought up again, and it kept feeling more and more unnecessary with each mention.However, I still maintain a 5-Star rating. This story, as all Green’s novels are, is a vehicle to talk about more important things, the deep and dark and raw things we don’t like to talk about, but should.

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