About this title: Jodi Picoult, autora de "Por la vida de mi hermana," nos presenta su libro mas fascinante, con una alarmante y conmovedora historia acerca de las repercusiones devastadoras de una tragedia en un pueblo pequeno de los Estado Unidos.
Sterling es un pueblo comun en New Hampshire donde nunca ocurre nada -- hasta el dia que su complacencia es hecha anicos por un acto de violencia. Josie Cormier, la hija de la jueza que preside el caso, es la mejor testigo con la que cuenta el estado, pero no puede recordar lo que ha ocurrido delante de sus propios ojos o si?
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2009-04-28
ISBN-13:9781439109250ISBN:1439109257
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Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2009-04-28
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 2009-04-28
ISBN-13:9781439109250ISBN:1439109257
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Atria
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439109250ISBN:1439109257
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439109250ISBN:1439109257
Description: New. Jodi Picoult, autora de "Por la vida de mi hermana, " nos presenta su libro mas fascinante, con una alarmante y conmovedora historia acerca de las repercusiones devastadoras de una tragedia en un pueblo pequeno de los Estado Unidos. Sterling es un pue... read more
"I've read quite a lot of Picoult now. I started on a high note - My Sister's Keeper, which apart from the cop-out ending, was a really fantastic read. I mostly enjoyed her books with the exception of Salem Falls which failed to ring any bells for me at all, but this book, Nineteen Minutes was... tedious. It started off ok, but one major character turned out to be a red herring and just another woman in need of a f*** and her opposite number, who looked like she was going to be an uber-earth mother, was a mess. (Admittedly that was probably as true-to-life as one could get). The middle part of the book was just pure tedium and the twist of an ending was so unlikely that all I felt on completing it was relief. Sad really. Maybe its like film stars who know when to stop, maybe writers should know when they've hit their peak and retire too."
"Believe it or not, Nineteen Minutes is the first and only Jodi Picoult book that I have read thus far. I can't imagine why I didn't discover her long ago. I loved this one and will definitely be checking out a few of her others.
I found this book to be very thought-provoking. When we see school shootings on the news (and there've sure been plenty of them), we only get a one-dimensional glance of the event. Rarely do we learn much about the shooter's personal life prior and leading up to the event, nor do we truly realize what the surviving victims, the families, and their community experience in the aftermath of the tragedy. Ms. Picoult does an amazing job at taking us inside the harsh reality, somewhere that most of us have only observed from the safety of our living rooms.
This book touched me from so many different angles. I really empathized with Josie's feelings of emptiness on the inside, of her concern that underneath the mask she showed the world, there was nothing there; that she was little more than "Matt's girlfriend" or "one of the popular kids", a status that was so fragile it could be snatched away at any time. I also felt great sympathy for Peter, and I thought the author did a wonderful job of exposing the fear and humiliation of being the target of bullying day after day after day. High school is ROUGH. Kids are MEAN. And yet it's an evironment in which kids are forced to go back to; there is no escape. I think the author was right-on with the "Bullied Victim Syndrome", and while I would never condone the horror of what Peter did, I can certainly understand where it came from.
The book made me think twice about violent video games, as well. It's easy to write off any concerns expressed in the media, to just think, "ah, it's just a game, lighten up". But as the author described, kids are retreating away from reality and into these alternate universes where they feel appreciated and in control. In the mind of a disturbed teenager, "real life" and this "other world" might start to merge into a scary new reality, as it did for Peter. Although I am not a parent, I think it is crucial for our society to be more alert to the potential risks of this."
"WOW! This was an awesome book. I TOTALLY didn't think it was going to end that way. Actually, there was a little part of me but then I thought "nah, there's no way". This was a tragic disaster that happened to this town. A lot of people dismiss school shootings weeks or months after the incident but they never think about what it does to the people who lived it for the rest of their lives. I will admit to that. Of course I have never been put in that situation before and thankfully I never was put there but I can only imagine. I see it all the time on the news and it just seems like its happening more and more these days. I was bullied in school but of course I didn't go shoot up my school. There are some people who are just stronger than others and I am in NO way condoning those people who do that. The twist it took at the end of the book was shocking. I was thoroughly intrigued throughout this entire book. I would have finished it soon but I am a slow reader and life got in the way. I'm excited to read more of Jodi Pocoults books. I def recommend this to anyone. It was pretty dern good."
"It's kind of hard to describe how I felt about this book. It's my first Jodi Picoult book, and it was really really good, I couldn't put it down. The ending was sad but what do you expect after reading about a high school shooting. It goes behind the story of the killer, why he did it and what he went through in the past. I actually felt bad for him...of course no one deserves to die, but it makes you think...maybe they deserved it? Or maybe they didn't. I was so interested in the book because it's something that happened in real life before, Columbine, Virgina Tech, etc. I had so many questions running through my mind, why did he do it? What happened to him in the past? Then there's a twist at the end that I didn't expect and that just made it even more sad, but I understood why it happened. One of the things that confused me the most was that the book kept going back from the past to the present in every chapter and I had to tell myself that I was reading about the past and then the next chapter would be about the present. Once I got towards the middle it all started to make sense. I'm excited to read more of her books!"
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