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He Forgot to Say Goodbye 2 csillagozás
„I mean, it's not as if I want a father. I have a father. It's just that I don't know who he is or where he is. But I have one.” Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove don't appear to have much in common. Ram lives in the Mexican-American working-class barrio of El Paso called „Dizzy Land.” His brother is sinking into a world of drugs, wreaking havoc in their household. Jake is a rich West Side white boy who has developed a problem managing his anger. An only child, he is a misfit in his mother's shallow and materialistic world. But Ram and Jake do have one thing in common: They are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This sad fact has left both of them undeniably scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. As Jake and Ram overcome their suspicions of each other, they begin to move away from their loner existences and realize that they are capable of reaching out beyond their wounds and the neighborhoods that they grew up in. Their friendship becomes a healing in a… (tovább)
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2008
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Enciklopédia 3
Szereplők népszerűség szerint
David Ballard · Jake Upthegrove · Ramiro Lopez
Most olvassa 1
Várólistára tette 5
Kívánságlistára tette 4
Kiemelt értékelések
Ahogy Sáenztől már megszokhattuk, dolgok történnek a főszereplőinkkel, dolgok történnek körülöttük. De a könyv igazi cselekménye bennük zajlik.
Ram a kezdetektől szimpatikus volt. spoiler Jake ellenben kifejezetten antipatikus volt. Erőszakos, bunkó, kötekedő. Aztán ahogy haladt a történet, úgy ismertem meg őt egyre jobban és ő lett az a karakter, akihez a legjobban tudtam kapcsolódni.
Olvasás közben gyakran elhűltem. Tényleg ilyenek lennének a felnőttek? Én szerencsés voltam. A körülöttem lévő felnőttek, tanárok mindig elfogadták a lázadásaimat, hagyták, hogy kérdezzek, megkérdőjelezzek, kötöszködjek. Bár lehet, azért, mert én képes voltam olyan módon és köntösben megfogalmazni és közölni ezeket, ami elfogadható volt a számukra. Már kicsikét kialakult nálam egy szűrő, ami segítette (formázta?) a felnőttekkel való beszédemet. De akiket megkérdeztem, szinte mindenkinek a könyvhöz hasonló tapasztalatai voltak.
Ez megrémített. Hiszen ezek a felnőttek is valaha kamaszok voltak, akik próbálták megérteni a világot. Ha én is ilyen felnőtté válnék, inkább ne is legyek felnőtt soha.
Népszerű idézetek
There's a lot of irony here, of course. Irony – that's my favourite word. Look, I live in a seriously ironic world and if there is a God, I've decided irony is his favourite word too.
16. oldal
The thing is, just because they all go to work and bring in some cash, they figure they know how to run the world. Well, take a look around. Global warming, pollution, poor people without health insurance, bad schools, bad streets, underpaid teachers, overpaid insurance lawyers, and gasoline prices that are as high as Katie Scopes at a party. (Katie Scopes, I like her, but, hell, she's always stoned – probably due to the fact that adults are running the world).
13. oldal
Okay, see, we have a problem. You don't think I want to talk and I don't think you want to listen.
8. oldal
Anyway, I stopped trying to talk to David after that. I mean, he may be a brilliant attornary, but as a human being, he was about as brilliant as the sun in the middle of a midnight blizzard. […] His father handed him a religion, and he just took it like he'd take a dollar bill. His father handed him the political party he was going to belong to, and David just stuck that in his pocket too.
49. oldal
Alejandra says people who have everything are really shallow. Which is a very interesting thing to say for a girl who happens to want everything. I mean, does she want to grow up and be shallow? Me, I don't want everything. I just want my brother and my mother to be happy. And while we're at it, I want me to be happy too. Maybe that's too much to ask.
51. oldal
Tell me again that I don't have any reason to be angry. Tell me again that it's me who's all screwed up. Go ahead. Believe me, I can take it.
231. oldal
It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more – the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful.
129. oldal
Everybody in the world speaks their own kind of language. And you know what? All we do is translate. No, all we do is mistranslate. That's my new theory. I mean, how else do you explain the fact that nobody understands one another.
74. oldal
„I saw what Domingo did to you.”
„He doesn't like to be called Domingo,” I said. „He likes to be called Elvis.”
„I don't care what he likes to be called,” she said. „No drugs and no violence in this school.”
I hated to burst her bubble, but our school was full of drugs and violence. I mean, this was the United States of America, right?
54-55. mondat
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