Pete Hautman
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.55 | 1891 Users | 323 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Big Crunch |
| Author | : | Pete Hautman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2011 by Scholastic Press |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Romance. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary. Teen. Fiction |
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A funny, clear-eyed view of the realities of teenage love from National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.
Jen and Wes do not "meet cute." They do not fall in love at first sight. They do not swoon with scorching desire. They do not believe that they are instant soul mates destined to be together forever.
This is not that kind of love story.
Instead, they just hang around in each other's orbits...until eventually they collide. And even after that happens, they're still not sure where it will go. Especially when June starts to pity-date one of Wes's friends, and Wes makes some choices that he immediately regrets.
From National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, this is a love story for people not particularly biased toward romance. But it is romantic, in the same way that truth can be romantic and uncertainty can be the biggest certainty of all.
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| ISBN: | 0545240751 (ISBN13: 9780545240758) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2011), Minnesota Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.55 From 1891 Users | 323 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books The Big Crunch
If youve ever wanted to read a romantic story featuring two completely normal, well-adjusted people, look no further because this is the book for you. Wes and June are average suburban middle-class teenagers; they dont have any dark secrets, troubled pasts, abusive families, addictions, jealous exes, or any of the other Big Problems™ that are typical of so many YA and adult romances (even their parents are still happily married). Neither is really looking for a relationship when they first meet,June moves around a lot due to her parents business. Her parents help companies come up out of the red, and then they move on to the next hurting company. So June winds up in Minnesota. Wes just broke up with his girlfriend of nearly 18 months, because he just needed some time to be himself. Then Wes sees June. The connection is not really instant. Wes can only really recall her aqua colored eyes. As they glimpse at each other more and more, and eventually have a conversation though, something
I love realistic and romantic fiction. This would have been a wonderful story for me to read. In fact, I even liked the story. But, imagine for a moment a fresh teen romance story that you were so eager to read... Now imagine that story being told by a ROBOT.I could not tolerate the third person distant weird storytelling. It drove me nuts. I felt like my 5 years old daughter was methodically telling me what happened in a movie. It was just so emotionless, dull and utterly frustrating narration
I love realistic and romantic fiction. This would have been a wonderful story for me to read. In fact, I even liked the story. But, imagine for a moment a fresh teen romance story that you were so eager to read... Now imagine that story being told by a ROBOT.I could not tolerate the third person distant weird storytelling. It drove me nuts. I felt like my 5 years old daughter was methodically telling me what happened in a movie. It was just so emotionless, dull and utterly frustrating narration
The jacket of this book describes it as a love story for people not particularly biased towards romance. The novel follows two teenagers June, the daughter of a consultant who is always on the move, and has learned to keep herself disconnected in each new place; and Wes, a semi-cool semi-geek who lives in the little Minnesota town to which Junes family has recently relocated. On the first few days of school, June goes through the usual motions of trying to find a couple of decent girls and guys
I read this book in about 5 hours. I couldn't put it down! I think Hautman is a magnificently candid writer. I love how he crafts a story and builds his characters. I've read reviews where readers think Hautman's books offer little plot, but the journey his characters travel while their lives intertwine is truly remarkable. To captivate an audience through the interactions between characters rather than the places they go or the things they do is highly creative. "The Big Crunch" made me laugh
What I really liked about this book;; The characters. They were all really real and relatable, not blown-out-of-proportion and overly perfect like in a lot of YA books with a romance. Wes and June were really likable, which is one of the reasons I kept reading. They had their flaws, and that just made me like them all the more. The relationship between Wes and June. Unlike sooo many YA books you see, this book didn't use the cliche "boy/girl of my dreams... literally" or "instantaneous, deep,
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