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Turtles All the Way Down
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- Categories: Teen & Young Adult, Romance
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Publisher's Summary
Featured on 60 MINUTES and Fresh Air
“So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” (The New York Times)
Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more!
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.
What the critics say
"Narrator Kate Rudd dramatizes the quick intelligence and high anxiety of high school junior Aza Holmes.... Rudd expresses most strongly Aza's sarcastic inner voice, which is so developed that it becomes a character. The convincing portrayals makes it easy to see how Aza is hindered in loving, thinking, and living without fear." (AudioFile)
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- Peter Ashlock
- 2017-10-11
Excellent book about mental illnesd
This story was amazing. sometimes, I cried, or it hurt to listen. Narrator was fantastic
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- aimerz09
- 2017-12-31
John Green never disappoints!
To be honest, this was my first audiobook. So it took me a little bit to get into it. But not much! I'd say somewhere in chapter 3, whether that was because of the story, or because I needed to get used to listening to someone else read it other than myself. Definitely a new experience lol. But in the end, I loved it! And would highly recommend!
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- Sophia
- 2017-11-01
Wow.
I have clinical depression and am currently in treatment, so this really rang out for me. You think that its going to be about the money, but it isn't. It's about Aza. And you don't really see that until later in.
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- Claire
- 2017-10-24
One of the best stories I have ever experienced
This is moving, real, and emotionally charge throughout. The reader is very talented and John Green has made this his best story yet.
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- Krysee A.
- 2017-11-29
John Green does it again.
John Green has left another hole in my heart in a way that only John Green can. He has taken another step to normalize what feels anything but normal. He has given a new breath to a struggle that so many feel they are drowning in. How humanizing to know that even when you are spiraling, you are not alone.
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- Bro’s
- 2021-01-19
Wow.
Wow. This book was incredible. I felt all this so hard omfg, this was amazing. I hate and love that I relate to this book so well. It’s so well written and it all makes so much sense and I love it. This is a fantastic piece of work with such a strong grip on reality despite it’s fictionality. A fantastic book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-01-10
Touching, Exciting, Phenomenal Read
this one sort of rips your guts out, but in a good way. possibly triggering to those with OCD or other anxiety disorders.
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- Christopher Armero
- 2020-10-04
Book was so much better than I expected
If you’re expecting another John Green novel about young love then this is not the one. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of his other books, but this one felt very different and it’s one of my new favourite books! I liked the narration a lot and it was just a really sweet book. The main character is annoying but relatable and you almost feel bad because you know she knows she’s annoying. But I still loved her, god she’s one of my new favourite characters in literature. I loved how she described her feelings and her fears.
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- Whistlerite
- 2020-09-14
Marvellously engaging thought provoking fiction
A brilliant depiction of the inexorable though machinations and compulsions of an anxious OCD mind as well as the clumsy reality of teenage relational intimacies. A coming of age story of the joys and losses and mysteries of life. Great poetic quotes. Generally brilliant performance, with occasional annoying dragging speech tempo reminiscent of a TV announcer pronouncing difficult words.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-10
You will laugh while you cry.
For the person who has or knows someone that lives with OCD and or anxiety. This book starts off as a funny if not seemingly cliché summer love story that quickly escalates to a young adult mystery novel following and narrated by a compelling and interesting protagonist. You will laugh at the bits of pop culture humour and cry if not somberly reflect on the books more serious conversations of identity of one's self and the struggle with one's anxiety. Trigger warning to those who either have or know someone that loves with anxiety and OCD as some of the subject matter really hit home for myself. Overall this book is about love, love of your friends, family and oneself. Even if you find it difficult or impossible to love yourself.
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- Jenifer Jacobs
- 2017-10-15
Heartbreakingly truthful and lovely
As a psychologist for teens, as a mom, and as a person, I loved this book. Being inside the head of a young woman with an anxiety disorder was both enlightening and anxiety producing. I know, from reading the "glowing book reviews" than John Green knows of what he writes. He suffers like Aza suffers. And so it rings true. Thank you, John, for the vulnerability required to put these thoughts to paper. I know how both enlightening and healing the written word can be. The shrink scenes were funny but also realistic. And so is the recognition that there is reason to hope. I miss Aza and Daisy and Davis. I wasn't ready for their story to end. As always, in John Green books, the adolescent/parent relationships are healthy and "normal". But the parents aren't really the focus of the story (which I also love because it means I get to "be" a teenager again). Anyhow, the bottom line is: read this book. Or listen - because the narrator is wonderful.
35 people found this helpful
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- Lynnzee
- 2017-10-23
I hate to call it a trigger warning, but-
John Green is, as always, an excellent writer, and this performance is really good at 1.25 speed (at just normal speed it was a little flat in places, but that might just be me). However, if you actually HAVE anxiety, be prepared to take this book slowly. Maybe some people it won't affect, but I had to take regular breaks or risk having a panic attack of my own. Aza's spirals felt very real and very tangible and too, too familiar.
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- Anonymous User
- 2017-10-11
Heart wrenching
Not only does John Green deliver his usual beautifully crafted cry fest, but as a person with a mental illness, this stuck a chord deep within me. It provides a voice to the very abstract in a wonderfully accurate and complex manner that is very hard to find.
I'm not usually a fan of audiobooks, as I prefer pacing the story according to my emotional responses, but Kate Rudd delivers an entrancing performance that I was unable to stop listening to for longer than 10 minutes, even though I got this book way too late in the day for it to be appropriate to consume it in one sitting. It's 1:47 am on the 11/10/17 as I type this. That's how good this is.
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- Meg
- 2017-11-03
Surprisingly small amount of actual turtles.
An amazing insight to the life of someone with mental illness. Wonderful! Kept me hooked! Listened as much as I could! Great narration, incredible story.
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- A. Everett
- 2017-11-15
Narrator's delivery distracted throughout
As someone with both first-hand and family experience of OCD, I found John Green's depiction of his main character's mental struggles disturbingly familiar. I wish Green hadn't written Aza Holmes as already seeing a therapist and in possession of prescribed medication, because Aza's resistance to taking her meds makes her anxieties not just a curse, but also a choice. For too many OCD sufferers, particularly young ones, diagnosis and medication remain months or years away.
As usual, Green has the YA mindset down pat. I admire his deft hand in creating adolescent characters: they're silly and insecure one moment, dramatic and self-importantly profound the next.
Unfortunately, Kate Rudd's narration robbed this book of being a four or five star read for me. Though she's clearly capable of reading with feeling, she has an annoying verbal tic of over-pronouncing words, particularly "to" (whether used with infinitive verbs--to go, to think, to eat, etc.--or as a preposition). It sounds choppy and halting, as if the text is being read by a first grader picking her way through a sentence, and it consistently threw me out of the story.
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- ping
- 2017-11-03
Made me feel.
I'm not the kind of person who really get emotional over books, in my long book reading history I can only name a few that actually made me feel and this book is the newest addition. I got this book pretty much solely because it was written by john green and I do love his work but I wasn't too interested in the plot but alas as I listened to it I grew more and more atratched and now that its over... John Green has produced another wonderfully written novel.
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- Alicia
- 2017-10-10
Another great John Green book
As always, John Green has delivered a wonderful read. I finished it in one day. Kate Rudd is a great narrator as well, giving the already lively book a brilliant performance. I’m sure this is a book I’ll revisit often.
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- ArtH
- 2017-11-03
Wow. Heavy.
This is not a light book. The story line is a fine foil to tell the real message: It sucks to have an anxiety distorter. It is like John Green attempted to boil down a young life time's worth of "most poignant explanations" of anxiety, and mashed them into one book. This is a tall order, but I think he might have been successful. It is hard to get through some of the sections... but I think that is the point. My brain naturally squirms away from this pain. But it makes me a better person to see the struggles of others. It also explores other people's reactions to anxiety, from the trivial to the deep. I can see some of my reactions to the book in the characters reaction in the book. Reaction inception. In retrospect, it is amazing that this project did not take 5 volumes.
I listened to this on a cross country trip with my kids, 16 and 18. The 16 yo did not pay attention. The 18 yo likes it but thought some of the characters were annoying. I think that those lend the feel of authenticity that other more plastic characters of other books do not have. The more... er... intimate parts of the book did create an awkward bit in the car... but again seemed to lend to the feel of authenticity to my old mind.
I grew up as lower-middle class, and I had that one super rich friend. If I told you his dads name, you would likely know it. While I cannot imagine him giving money to anyone, I did think you otherwise captured the feel of going to his house. Don't get me wrong, he was not stingy, he just knew that giving money to people creates an expectation that would poison relationships. But maybe I am wrong. His Dad would give all of his classmates laptops so that he would not be the only kid with one... this was "back in the day" when a laptop in high school would be unheard of. So maybe a desperately lonely teenager whos mom was dead and dad abandoned him would do that... but seems unlikely to me.
A good book if you are looking for something to expand your horizons.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
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- C. Vedro
- 2017-10-13
Good book, terrible reading
John Green has created beautiful, endearing characters and a great story. Kate Rudd’s performance was barely tolerable. At times I thought a computer was reading it! Sorry Kate, but yikes!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-11-04
Intriguing in many ways but a let down in others
I have read all of John Greens books and this was my least favorite. That's not to say it is a bad book, it's a very well structured and thought provoking book, and I believe it will be especially touching to those readers who suffer from mental illness. That said, I was very distracted by Kate Rudd's performance. Her male voices sounded like she was mocking teenage boys and her voice for the best friend was inconsistent and gnawing. I believe the audio would have been better had she not changed voices for each character, her regular voice was very compelling. Additionally, given John Green's foreshadowing I felt the main 'mystery clue' Aza was trying to solve was obvious, and thus it was very frustrating when she continually brought it up throughout the book. Despite John Green writing realistic teen fiction, all of his novels feel like a distortion of reality, many of the events end up feeling unbelievable.
All of that aside, the main characters were chArming, and had depth, and the reader spends the whole book trying to decide if they like the best friend or not, which is really intriguing. All of the characters break the readers expectations. This book is a good read for those suffering from mental illness and young adults struggling to understand mental illness.
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- Friot Clara
- 2018-07-16
A good book
Nothing spectacular here, or maybe I'm.not the right age to find it spectacular. It's a good book with a simple and solid plot. The strong part is the characters and the writing style. It can be a little triggering if you're the very anxious type. Not my thing, but pretty nice.
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- Atlanta Golding
- 2018-02-20
AMAZING
Mindful and mind blowing, it is the answer to all questions and the word to understand Life.