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Summary: Marvellous
Review: I was overwhelmed by the story. The novel is interesting to read, because there are different opinions and different views of persons. It's tensioned, you don't know what it's going to follow. The person who touched me a lot is Helen. Helen has to take a hard decision which impresses her for her whole life. It's not easy to be so hard, as consistent as she is. She risks losing her parents - her family. It's not sure how her life would go on. For this reason she takes it more or less easy. She lets events happen with her and her baby. Sometimes I had the feeling that she knows, that her mother isn't always so heartless to her, she is just afraid, that she makes a mistake she regrets later. Her self-confidence is so big that her mother can't make her what she wants - to abort the baby. Sometimes I had pity with Chris. He hasn't got to decide or even to say anything. He is just there and has to accept what she is deciding. In a way I can understand her, finally it's her life, she has to be there for the baby night and day. But she doesn't give any chance to Chris. All he's doing isn't right, but in fact, he isn't unfair to her. The things he's doing are normal for a young man in his age, it's just, he can't really imagine what responsibility he is going to have.
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Summary: Most interesting book I've ever read
Review: I was really overwhelmed by "Dear Nobody".It tells the reader about every day-problems of young adults, for example arguments with parents or friends and love/loneliness.The main characters Helen and Chris are both seniors and deeply in love when Chris gets Helen pregnant unwanted.Chris's narrative and Helen's letters to her unborn baby whom she calls "Nobody" show up how they cope with their new circumstances. Some passages can almost move you to tears because it is written in a realistic way.
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Summary: Clichés. Lot's of 'em.
Review: Is it just me or are the only teenagers reading this book forced to do so in school? Well, I am one of these poor individuals and as my opinion didn't matter much in class, may it matter here. "Dear Nobody" got a high rank in my highscore of the worst books ever written.
The POV switches between Helen and Chris, of which the former is such an unpleasant little lass you get the urge to throw the book into the next corner whenever she stars whining.
The plot is so terribly based on clichés, it's hard to ignore them even if your english teachers forces you to do so.
Starting with the question that tortured me the whole book: WHY oh god COULDN'T THEY USE PROTECTION to save me from the rest of the book???
But, oh well, the soap opera starts:
Helen tries to kill her unborn by making a horse bolt (how intelligent is that?)and afterwards gets to know that almost every women in her and Chris family have had a child they didn't want, aborted or left.
Nice. I wouldn't want to be born in THAT family.
Sensitive Chris meanwhile leaves his pregnant girl-friend, goes to France and meets a welsh girl(I never meet any welsh in France. Damn. Must have been the wrong places.)
In the end, they finally break up, Helen gets the poor baby and Chris goes to univerity. (what happened to the welsh-french-whatever girl? Who knows.)
To make it a perfect review: the lines I thought were especially awful:
--"Helen and I touched each other where we had never touched each other before and made love." Yuck. Cheesy line. Make love *shiver*
"It's my baby too. It's a little egg. It's life itself. ... Two hundred million sperm tried to reach you, and this is the one that made it."(Chris)
Oh my. Nothing I can possibly add to THAT.
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Summary: Good Read
Review: It is a very special book with a lot of emotions. I think it is very hard for a girl if she is pregnant at this early age. But I think it is good that Helen wants the baby. It is better for her. The end of that book is very happy. The mother and the grandmother love the baby too. That is very good and calm. I hope that I will never be in that situation. I do not want to become a father at that age because I will enjoy my life. Berlie Doherty gives us such different views. She shows us what we don't have to do.
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Summary: It's just great
Review: It was the best book I've ever read, except that I couldn't figure out if they went back together once the baby was born.
It's one of the few books I've read that really moved me.
I suggest YOU read it. :)Mr. Youngberg
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Summary: My opinion about the novel
Review: Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there. This book is a kind of journey, but I don't know yet where it's going to end.
That's how the novel 'Dear Nobody' from Berlie Doherty starts. But it's not as fictional as it may sound yet.
The book tells the story about a teenaged couple, about their problems with an unwanted pregnancy and the conflicts they have with their friends, families and with themselves.
The book is written out of the sight of the young boy and it's very interesting. The auther knows how to arouse and maintain the readers intrest very well and as an little change there are letters from the young girl to her unborn baby.
The feelings of the characters are discribed very well so the reader can put hisself into the characters place easily.
To the plot and the persons the reader gets to know very soon.
I liked the book because it's easy to read and the story is nice, too. Also it's good that the main characters have almost the same age as me.
While reading there could come up one question: "What would I do in their situation?"
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Summary: This is THE best book
Review: Oh my gosh. I just finished this book and it was so good. I loved it. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes to go see romantic comedies at the movies. It's so good. I couldn't put it down and it only took me 2 days to read it. I hope that everyone else who reads this will emjoy it as much as I did.
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Summary: Dear Nobody
Review: Review of the novel „Dear Nobody" The novel "Dear Nobody" by Berlie Doherty is about a young boy, called Chris, and his girlfriend Helen. This book is a kind of journey. It's written like a diary and every month is one chapter. In the first and second chapter, that is to say in January and February, Chris describes the relationship between him and Hele4n and of course the action. Helen's parents are very strict and Chris lives with his father and brother alone. His mother left them years ago, but now Chris writes her a letter hoping to review the relationship. At the end of February Helen get pregnant from Chris. She doesn't know what to do now. Her parents want her to put up the baby for an adoption or to abort it. But all the others think that Helen should get the baby. From that moment on, when Helen thinks that she could be pregnant, she begins to write letters, which all begin in the same way "Dear Nobody". With the pregnancy the relationship between Helen and Chris becomes bad. They don't meet very often, , because Helen gradually finishes the contact. On June 23th she finishes the relationship between them completely, only three months before the birth of their baby. She thinks that Chris isn't ready for the baby; that he isn't really ready for her. He's very disappointed, but he has to live with this decision of Helen's now. Helen thinks bery much about her baby, of course even about Chris, but now she's ready for her baby. And on September 30th the contractions begin. At that moment Robbie, her brother, takes the whole letters, which Helen has written, to Chris for Helen. Chris wonders, he asks himself, if he has become nobody for her!? Once he was her boyfriend and now he's nobody for her!"? I think it's an interesting book. It talks about problems, which young people have and how the girl and her parents react, when she gets pregnant so early. I think it's a good book for teenagers between fourteen an eighteen years. In my opinion it's interesting for boys and girls, because the book describes the feelings of Chris and Helen.
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Summary: Dear Nobody
Review: Review of the novel „Dear Nobody" The novel "Dear Nobody" by Berlie Doherty is about a young boy, called Chris, and his girlfriend Helen. This book is a kind of journey. It's written like a diary and every month is one chapter. In the first and second chapter, that is to say in January and February, Chris describes the relationship between him and Hele4n and of course the action. Helen's parents are very strict and Chris lives with his father and brother alone. His mother left them years ago, but now Chris writes her a letter hoping to review the relationship. At the end of February Helen get pregnant from Chris. She doesn't know what to do now. Her parents want her to put up the baby for an adoption or to abort it. But all the others think that Helen should get the baby. From that moment on, when Helen thinks that she could be pregnant, she begins to write letters, which all begin in the same way "Dear Nobody". With the pregnancy the relationship between Helen and Chris becomes bad. They don't meet very often, , because Helen gradually finishes the contact. On June 23th she finishes the relationship between them completely, only three months before the birth of their baby. She thinks that Chris isn't ready for the baby; that he isn't really ready for her. He's very disappointed, but he has to live with this decision of Helen's now. Helen thinks bery much about her baby, of course even about Chris, but now she's ready for her baby. And on September 30th the contractions begin. At that moment Robbie, her brother, takes the whole letters, which Helen has written, to Chris for Helen. Chris wonders, he asks himself, if he has become nobody for her!? Once he was her boyfriend and now he's nobody for her!"? I think it's an interesting book. It talks about problems, which young people have and how the girl and her parents react, when she gets pregnant so early. I think it's a good book for teenagers between fourteen an eighteen years. In my opinion it's interesting for boys and girls, because the book describes the feelings of Chris and Helen.
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Summary: A true story...
Review: The book contains the authentic story of Chris and Helen, two teenagers experiencing the love between them. When Helen realizes that she is pregnant, she has a difficult decision to take: her mother wants her to terminate the pregnancy, Helen would like to go to music college and Chris wants her to give birth to the "little Nobody" like Helen uses to call him in her letters. These "Dear Nobody" letters and Chris'honest and emotional descriptions of the happenings,his ambivalent feelings and the changing relationship to Helen take turns. This fact let the reader have a closer look on both trains of thought, male and female: Chris'point of view and Helen's inner conflict; that's why I prefer "Dear Nobody". I never read such a book before and it is the first one in which a male main character illustrates so frankly how he feels and who is so overwhelmed by the occurences Berlie Doherty's novel deals with.
[...]Throughout the book Helen writes letters to her unborn baby about her most personal thought. This book to me gives a great perspective of a teenage girl, going through very confusing issues and how she deals with the changes her body is going through. The author does a termendous job of stating realistic facts. The novel is always leaving you wondering what is going to happen next.Helen and Chris narrate the consequences of one night's unprotected passion that changes the course of their lives forever. With teen parenthood superimposing itself upon college plans, both give voice to disbelief, confusion, and fear. [...]. I think the book is very interesting, but it is not written for 16 years old children. The view, how the story is written by Berlie Doherty is very good to describe the feelings of Helen and Chris, but I like it more, when the story is told from the 3rd person !
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