Book Review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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Book Review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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This felt so different from John Green’s other books. By all means not in the wrong way. Aza’s compulsive thinking really struck a chord in me and so did her relationship with the world, the objects, and the people around her. A lot of this book really struck a chord within me in all honesty but I also feel the most disconnected and distanced from the characters than from his other books. I’ve felt bad and compassionate but I couldn’t completely immerse myself in their lives? I believe the book needed more depth to its characters in order to show that they’re not only the accumulation of their circumstances and thinking; which is a topic greatly discussed in this book to begin with. Maybe it’s the hype around this book that killed – more like dimmed – it for me. Regardless, I was flying through this book and hoping for the best and enjoying the prose, which felt much more simplified than other of John Green’s books. I don’t want to compare it much to his other books, although I did about three times. This book really does stand on its own and has its own merit and strengths and I highly recommend it for OCD representation.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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