Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Hardcover | Pages: 239 pages Rating: 4.21 | 6164 Users | 1038 Reviews
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| Title | : | Last Night I Sang to the Monster |
| Author | : | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 239 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2009 by Cinco Puntos Press |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Health. Mental Health. Realistic Fiction. Mental Illness |
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Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there. He's not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive - well, what's up with that?I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes Happy and on some people's hearts he writes Sad and on some people's hearts he writes Crazy on some people's hearts he writes Genius and on some people's hearts he writes Angry and on some people's hearts he writes Winner and on some people's hearts he writes Loser. It's all like a game to him. Him. God. And it's all pretty much random. He takes out his pen and starts writing on our blank hearts. When it came to my turn, he wrote Sad. I don't like God very much. Apparently he doesn't like me very much either.
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| Original Title: | Last Night I Sang to the Monster |
| ISBN: | 1933693584 (ISBN13: 9781933693583) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Containing Books Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Ratings: 4.21 From 6164 Users | 1038 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Last Night I Sang to the Monster
A beautifully heart wrenching novel that tackles seriously hard issues head on. Benjamin has done it again.We travel with Zach through this book whilst he tries to remember and recover what lead him to Cabin number 9 and the facility he is currently living in.We are introduced to a plethora of characters who are equal parts charming, loveable and soul crushing. I tested up throughout many parts of this book that I dont doubt was the authors exact intention.This book deals with numerous issuesI wont give a summary of this book, because that's clearly been done about a hundred times below. What I will do, is tell you what I thought of it.Anyone who has given this book a high rating clearly has no understanding of addiction or teenagers. The language in this book is tedious and obviously contrived. He uses the same expressions over and over in an effort to sound young, or cool, or edgy, but it mostly just comes off as obnoxious. If I had to guess, the author writes "That really tears
I do like and appreciate what Sáenz presents in this novel, and the writing style holds down a nice sense of prose blended with poetic flair and metaphor. At the same time, this story doesnt grip meand I mean really, truly grip methe way other books do. Im talking about books like There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Those are books that captivate my attention and emotions and seizes them very firmly. What Im
4.5/5 stars People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word. Once again, Benjamin Alire Sáenz has rendered me speechless with another beautiful and touching story. His writing is not only full of powerful images and is profoundly poetic, but it also seems to captures feelings and emotions that can't be explained with literal prose. This was a very raw and quite heavy exploration of alchohilsm in a teenager and his experience inside a mental health
3.5 out of 5While listening to the audiobook version of Last Night I Sang to the Monster, a realistic YA novel, at first I couldn't decide whether the book is exceptionally beautifully written or exceptionally beautifully narrated. I think it's the combination of both. Thanks to Benjamin Alire Sáenz's writing and MacLeod Andrews' narration, the main character's, Zach's, voice feels conversational and authentic, and I could understand, relate to, and even feel his pain, anger, sadness, denial,
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I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled. This book made me feel cold to my bones. It tore me apart many times, yet it was able to fulfill a part of me no other book couldve. This is a beautiful story of recovery and slow healing from pain and grief; the type of book that makes
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