Nothing

Summary: This story begins when a seventh-grade student named Pierre Anthon declares that everything is meaningless and leaves school. His classmates set out to prove him wrong, but the story takes a dark turn.

I didn't enjoyed it as much as I thought I would, but at the end it made me think a lot and even helped me finding meaning.

Ok, this one is really weird. While the fact that Pierre-Anthon decided to sat in a tree and yell that life has no meaning, which reminded me of The Baron in the trees, I must say that I wasn't prepared at all to this. This novel goes darker and darker at every page, leading to several wicked parts.

Some parts of the book are really interesting, the way Pierre-Anthon thinks for example, which takes a great part from the nihilism. His words and decisions will leads his friends to go in a search for the meaning of life, to try to convince Pierre-Anthon that the life has a deep meaning and that our existences are useful. The way the novel is built is interesting, has it forces you to face questions about your own life, but it goes well too far.

In the end I wasn't really convinced by this book, and must say I'm mostly shocked by it, without seeing a deeper interest.

Tengo una sensación confusa hacia este libro, debo admitir que me tuvo enganchada y provoco muchos sentimientos en mi, la mayoría de ellos nada positivos... el libro se desarrolla de tal manera que las cosas se van saliendo de control y el resultado es brutal... creo que en suma vale la pena leerlo, te hace reflexionar, sin embargo le di una puntuación de tres estrellas, como dije, me siento confundida.

Could this be the bleakest YA ever? It would get my vote.

Here is the story: Pierre decides that nothing matters, walks out of his classroom, climbs up into a tree, and refuses to come down. The others in his classroom feel compelled to try to convince Pierre that some things do matter. Using increasingly bizarre and horrific methods, Pierre's classmates attempt to demonstrate that things matter.

While I respect what this author was doing with this book, it is most definitely not my cuppa tea.