Ich glaube, das ist das erste Mal, dass ich das sage, aber die Serie hat mir sehr viel besser gefallen, als das Buch 🙈 in der Serie lernt man alle Beteiligten viel besser kennen, begleitet sie alle eine Weile und die Story ist so viel detailreicher. Wahrscheinlich habe ich all das auch im Buch erwartet, was dann leider zu ein bisschen Enttäuschung geführt hat. Im Buch wird eigentlich wirklich nur Hannahs Geschichte die h die Tapes erzählt und wir begleiten Clay, wie er sie hört. Über alle anderen erfahren wir so gut wie nichts. Fand ich sehr schade, da hätte das nicht gerne dicker sein dürfen! Ansonsten möchte ich den Schreibstil und die Aufbereitung aber sehr!

Die ständig wechselnden Perspektiven von Clay und Hannah ermöglichen einen vielseitigen Einblick in die Dinge, die passiert sind und in die Gedanken und Gefühle die Hannah und auch Clay durchleben. Interessant ist, dass Hannah von Anfang an Tod ist. Wichtig wird dadurch das Verstehen, das Nachvollziehen und das Reflektieren. Sich zu fragen, was eine Handlung für einen anderen Menschen für Folgen haben kann, ist eine wichtige Frage, die dieses Buch eröffnet. Für mich hatte dieses Buch Tiefgang, ich mochte die Charaktere und die verschiedenen Einblicke in die Gedanken. Ein sehr gelungenes Jugendbuch, was ein schwieriges Thema nicht nur anspricht, sondern auch mit dem Thema richtig umgeht.

https://lesenundhoeren.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/buch-review-jay-ashers-thirteen-reasons-why-emotional-traurig-und-nachdenklich/ Kritik: Cover: Ein Mädchen. Ein ganz normales Mädchen. Der Blick will sagen: Auch du! Auch du hast deinen Anteil daran. Dann der Schriftzug. Ich finde das Cover sehr gelungen und bei mir hat es sofort das Interesse geweckt. Eindrücke/Inhalt: Lange hatte ich dieses Buch auf meinem SUB liegen und hab es immer wieder mal angeguckt, aber nie gelesen. Dann habe ich zufällig gelesen, dass das Buch nun als Serie verfilmt werden soll. Und da hab ich es mal angegangen. Und ich war gefesselt. Ich finde das Thema immer wieder hochaktuell. Es ist authentisch und regt zum Nachdenken an. Für mich ist diese Geschichte sehr nah an der Realität und ich habe mit Hannah mitgefühlt. Da ist so viel schief gegangen. Und Clay? Ich hab mich immer nur gefragt, was er falsch gemacht haben könnte. Die Thematik wurde für mich jugendgerecht angegangen. Nicht zu tiefgründig, aber auch keinesfalls oberflächlich. Ich glaube, dass sich mit dieser Geschichte viele identifizieren können. Dann warnen wieder Stimmen, dass das zum Nachahmen anregen kann. Natürlich ist das möglich, aber gleichzeitig regt es doch auch zum Nachdenken an. Sollten wir nicht unsere Mitmenschen besser beobachten und mehr darauf achten, wie es ihnen geht und wie wir mit ihnen umgehen? Ich finde schon, dass es solche Bücher braucht. Man fühlt sich nicht allein mit seinen Gedanken und allein das reicht doch auch schon, um vielleicht nicht Hannahs Weg zu wählen, auch wenn ihre wenigen Hilferufe nicht gehört worden sind. Die Idee, mit den 13 „Gründen“ für den Selbstmord in Form von Tonaufnahmen abzurechnen, finde ich sehr nachvollziehbar. Ich habe das auch getan, wenn ich solche Gedanken hatte. Ich habe Briefe geschrieben und mir vorgestellt, dass die „Verantwortlichen“ diese nach meinem Tod lesen und ich von „oben“ das beobachten kann. Charaktere: Hannah ist die Hauptfigur. Sie ist hübsch und neu in der Schule. Sie ist selbstbewusst und gleichzeitig verletzlich. Sie st einsam, obwohl sie so viele Bekannte hat. Aber eben keine echten Freunde. Sie ist am Ende eine tragische Figur und vielleicht auch nicht stark genug, um die Dämonen der Pubertät zu besiegen. Clay ist ein bodenständiger Junge. Er fühlt sich verantwortlich, ist traurig, dass er Hannahs Tod nicht verhindern konnte. Er ist die Person, an der man sich ein Beispiel nehmen sollte. Er ist einfühlsam, aber eben auch nur ein Teenager. Woher soll er wissen, was in Hannahs Kopf vorgeht? Wie soll er an solch schlimme Möglichkeiten denken? Beide Figuren sind sympathisch und man kann ihr Handeln gut nachvollziehen. Stil/Gliederung: 13 Kapitel passend zu den 13 Gründen und den dreizehn Kassetten. Fazit: Es war Ashers Debütroman und ich habe auch noch kein anderes von ihm gelesen. Er schafft es aber mit diesen Buch zum Nachdenken anzuregen, zu Tränen zu rühren und mich einfach traurig und erschrocken dasitzen zu lassen. Ein wirklich gelungenes Debüt.

I’ve read this book immediately before reading it again, so the review is the same as in the German version. !! This book talks about very sensitive topics, so trigger warning !! I’ve read this book before, a while back, and while I was probably too young to really understand it then, I was already sure that it’s great. Hannah’s voice seems so… alive while she tells her stories and even though the tapes aren’t very up to date anymore, I can totally see how this was super popular when it came out. I still think it’s somewhat of a classic that everybody would do good to read once in their lives. Very captivating.

3,5/5 stars actually! Honestly, I don't really know what to think about this book. I liked it but I probably expected too much. Don't get me wrong, it was good and I enjoyed reading it but something disturbed me. I'm not even sure what. But I liked the general idea a lot! The whole concept of this snowball-/domino effect was interesting to read about and it showed how people's actions can affect someone else so deeply although you think they mean nothing. Well, you're wrong. Fact is, that we never really know how we affect people with our actions or sayings - it could mean nothing to them or it means everything. You'll never know. It really makes you think about it - which is good! We all should think before we do or says something ... but we know that already, it's just not always that easy.

I didn't read Thirteen Reasons Why growing up; I didn't even know the book existed; I had absolutely no idea what it was about until screen rights were sold and they made it into a original Netflix series. I usually like to read the books before I watch the adaptation and that's what I did with this one as well. I read this without knowing anything about it - it's been a week since I finished it and I still don't feel like I'm ready to write a proper review on this very important and powerful read but I'm gonna try anyway because I just need to share my thoughts on this with all of you. Before I started reading I asked my Instagram followers if they liked it or not and I heard very mixed things about the book but I personally really loved it. I want to say that I don't think this is the best book out there that deals with depression/suicide but I do think that it shows quite well how suicide impacts those affected and how certain actions can affect people. There were also some things I neecessarily didn't like and didn't agree with. I don't think it is okay to blame those who's actions drove Hannah to commit suicide. I don't like how sometimes it seemed that they used Hannah's suicide as an excuse to bully the ones who had bullied her. Although of course it was bad and awful what those kids did to her, it should NEVER be okay to bully someone. Not for anything. But the show is actually worse on this though. So yes, I can see why so many people find the book problematic and why some don't agree with the book but I just personally feel differently. The book deals with such delicate subjects (trigger warning: bullying, rape, teen suicide, etc.) but still manages to handle it (maybe not all of it, but most of it) with such care in a very emotional, honest and heart-wrenching way. May plan was to binge read the book but I simply couldn't do it. Never has a book emotionally touched me in such an intense way. It's not that I cried while reading the book, I actually didn't, not even once, but when I finished it, I basically sobbed my way through the answers the author gave to 13 questions in the back of the book, because all of a sudden everything just hit me so hard I couldn't handle it. Never in my life have I ever had to deal with mental illnesses. Never. The thought hurting myself or even committing suicide never occured to me: not even once in my life. And I also never knew anyone close to me being in such a situation and - to be honest - I'm glad, not because I don't want to have anything to do with people who have to deal with depressions etc. pp. I just don't think I could ever forgive myself for not noticing that maybe someone close to me felt that way - until it's too late. The thing that makes this book so real and the whole story told between those pages even worse is that this actually isn't fiction, maybe Hannah's life is, yes, but there are people out there who really suffer from depressions and sometimes are too scared to seek for help. And then, when they actually try to seek help, people may just shoo them away because they don't take them seriously - it makes me sick to my stomach. People nowadays hardly ever think how their actions or their words can affect others. Sometimes it just needs one word because we NEVER know how a person really feels. I had a friend once who committed suicide. We weren't close though; we met in 2010 while I lived in the states. We spent a weekend in Las Vegas together - spent two days partying, sun bathing, just having fun. We stayed in contact after I went back home to Germany. Last year - 6 years later - another friend of mine messaged me, telling me that he committed suicide; that he shot himself in the backyard of his house. He was engaged to a sweet young woman and even only two days before he killed himself, he went out to a bar with his fiance and some friends, posted photos online; he was smiling, taking selfies - he was simply having fun. At least that's what it looked liked. Two days later they found him dead in the backyard, a gun right next to him on the ground. Although we weren't that close and we only occasionally talked over Facebook the news of his death hit me so hard I couldn't breath for a second. There was only one question in my head for days: why does a guy, who seemed so happy, who posted like a million photos of him partying with his friends on facebook only days before, kill himself? Why? You never know how a person really feels; what they have to deal with and that is exactly why we should always be careful what we say and how we say it and what we do; how we treat each other because it could lead to something that awful. We should always respect each other; don't call each other names; stop being mean and hateful and most importantly, stop being hurtful to others because you never know how much damage you could cause. The message that our actions influence others in ways we may not even realize came across really well and this is exactly what makes this book so important and so powerful. This book is heartbreaking and very hurtful but - if we like it or not - it's the ugly truth. Besides the heavy subject this book deals with the book was also very interesting to read. Alongside Hanna's voice from the tapes she left behind to those who bullied her, we also get Clay's (our main character and Hanna's friend and coworker) immediate thoughts and actions while listening to the tapes, which makes the story so real. It's like you're right there, next to him, listening to the tapes as well. As only those who bullied her and who Hannah thinks are the reason she committed suicide in the end received those tapes I was nervous and terrified for Clay because I really enjoyed his character. He seemed like a decent and nice guy; not someone who would bully a girl so Clay and the reader are kind of in the same situation. Both don't know if he hurt her and if he did something that made Hannah end her young life. Because he received the tapes as well after all ... I just really loved the format of the book; it was like I was listening to the tapes myself; I could almost hear Hannah's voice saying all those words out loud. Hannah was a victim of bullying, (sexual) harassment and much more and as more and more of her reasons came to light it made me feel so sad and at times sick to my stomach. The show is much more extreme though but thinking that there are people out there who have to deal with bullying and such every day of their lives is just ... awful and so heart breaking. This book showed us very well how cruel people can be and that some people handle this cruelty better than others do. So yes, the book might not be perfect; I didn't agree with everything either but I still think that this is a very important and powerful read and it does a very good job in reminding us how absolutely important it is to always be nice and if you don't have anything nice to say, just say nothing. That might be the better option then. This book definitely is a wake up call and I personally think that everyone should read it, even though some might not enjoy it as much as others.

Raccontare una storia a volte è salutare. Raccontare una storia, estranea, rende liberi. Ma se ti incatenasse maggiormente a quella che è una realtà? Se servisse solo ad esprimere e spiegare quel che è già un fatto? Clay Jensen tornando a casa da scuola, trova un pacchetto, non più grande di ua scatola di scarpe, sulla porta di casa. Ricevere posta inaspettata può essere piacevole, rendere la giornata migliore o renderla un incubo. Clay non è stato l'unico e non sarà l'ultimo a ricevere questo pacchetto. 13. Persone. Storie. Intrecci. 13 passi verso l'abisso. Aprendo il pacco, Clay, si trova davanti 7 cassette numerate per lato con smalto per unghie blu. Da 1 a 13. Nessun mittente, nessun indizio. Un gioco? Non proprio, o quasi. C'è chi pensa che le proprie azioni non abbiano conseguenze. E invece. Invece, eccole qui registrate, una per una. 13, appunto. Clay, cerca incuriosito un lettore di audiocassette, ne trova uno, impolverato e comprato in un garage sale, per pochi dollari. Schiaccia play e il tempo si riavvolge. Non è musica quella che sta per ascoltare, ma potrebbe esserlo. Una poesia, crudele. Una voce, quella di Hanna Baker suicidatasi due settimane prima. Sembra di trovarsi davanti un fantasma, un cadavere, un odore nauseabondo. Ma Clay va avanti. Perchè sembra l'unica cosa possibile da farsi. Hannah spiega, come regole di un gioco, la presenza delle cassette. Ed è lì che Clay ha paura quanta mai ne ha provata in vita sua. Hannah introduce agli ascoltatori la sua vita o meglio, la fine delle sua vita. Quei 13 passi verso l'abisso. Passi in solitudine con la vergogna e la paura addosso. Tutti colpevoli. Tutti? Clay non può crederci, lui l'amava o almeno avrebbe voluto provarci. E' così che comincia questo libro e ti incatena. Come sono incatenati i 13 protagonisti della vita di Hannah. Segui Clay, lo segui e corri e vorresti piangere e urlare e fermare il tempo e tornate indietro nel tempo. Aver scoperto prima tutto, aver sofferto con lei, non aver ignorato. Provi schifoe orroreper ciò che ti circonda ma ormai è tardi. E non sei più lo stesso. Insomma, 13, non è quello promesso dalla trama italiana, è molto di più. Non un thriller psicologico ma un percorso, di solitudine e abbandono totali. E' spietato, ma non cattivo. Perchè tutti noi abbiamo un peso nella vita del prossimo che non possiamo ignorare. E tutti noi facciamo stronzate più o meno gravi ma, tutto.e.sempre.ha. una conseguenza. http://houseofbooks.iobloggo.com/

When I first heard/read about Thirteen Reasons Why I was somewhat glad that I found a book dealing with suicide and teenage bullying. Thirteen Reasons Why is written in a unique style which was a nice change but which made it harder for me to connect with the characters. I can't pinpoint what it was exactly but there were few points where I could really feel for Hannah and Clay. And I could never really relate to the two (which may or may not be a good thing, depending on how you look at it). The book, however, was suspenseful and I couldn't put it down. It was well-written and I would certainly read another book by Jay Asher. [There were two spelling errors in the book which took me out of Clay and Hannah's world. I don't know if they have been corrected now but I thought I would point them out. 1. Because you found your way home in once piece, Jenny. (Page 246) 2. But for those of us who did go to school, the teachers let us know that if we simply forgot to bring a note from home, they wouldn't mark us absent if we wanted to attendeded the funeral. (Page 247/248)] I will have to read this book at another time again to see if I will feel differently about it. Rating: 2.5/5

Can i just say the TV show is much better than the book? Even though I LOVED THE writing style - from the audio tapes to the thoughts clay had, beautifully done - only because it was in that format I really couldn't feel/ know who other people were which is where the series excelled and brought in depth to the story.