When Craig Gilner gets into Manhattan's exclusive Executive Pre-Professional High School, it's the culmination of a year of intense focus and grinding hard work. Now he has to actually attend the school with other equally high-performing students. Oops. And so the unraveling begins, with a depressed Craig spending more time smoking dope and throwing up than studying. Although medication helps his depression, he decides to stop taking it. Soon after, he makes another decision: to commit suicide. A call to a suicide hotline gets him into a psychiatric hospital, where he is finally able to face his demons. Readers must suspend their disbelief big time for this to work. Because the teen psych ward is undergoing renovations, Craig is put in with adults, which provides the narrative with an eccentric cast of characters rather than just similarly screwed-up teens. And in his five days in the hospital, Craig manages to cure his eating disorder, find a girlfriend, realize he wants to be an artist, and solve many of his co-residents' problems, including locating Egyptian music for his roommate, who won't get out of bed. What could he do if he wasn't depressed! But what's terrific about the book is Craig's voice--intimate, real, funny, ironic, and one kids will come closer to hear. Many readers will be familiar with the drugs, the sexual experimentation, the language, and, yes, the depression--or they'll know someone who is. This book offers hope in a package that readers will find enticing, and that's the gift it offers. Ilene Cooper
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It's Kind of a Funny Story 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
圖書標籤: 小說 成長 美國 英文原版 心理 抑鬱癥 2007 Ned_Vizzini
一想到作者最後還是選擇瞭跳樓整本書的歡樂氣氛就減少瞭一半。抑鬱癥有時候它要把你吞沒,有時候你覺得你掌控瞭它,然而它就是一場緩慢,長久又痛苦的鬥爭
評分The greatest thing is that the book allows readers to see through the eyes of those who suffer from mental problems. Funny and serious .
評分一想到作者最後還是選擇瞭跳樓整本書的歡樂氣氛就減少瞭一半。抑鬱癥有時候它要把你吞沒,有時候你覺得你掌控瞭它,然而它就是一場緩慢,長久又痛苦的鬥爭
評分自愈。從電影到書,更完整的故事。其實電影改編也不賴!
評分書三星(主要是結尾太潦草瞭),加上作者生平四星……話說我已經忘記豆瓣打星原來的紅色瞭……
It's Kind of a Funny Story 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載