Bernardas Šliamka

An easy-to-read, light-humored book about the relationship between two couples and the things that connect them. Absurd situations, although often easily predictable, make you laugh, and the plot is engaging. Although not very exclusive, all the contents are connected together well and can lift the reader's mood after a hard day. Admittedly, after so many widely described events, the end of the booked seemed a bit incomplete.

The book is mainly aimed at teenagers and young people, because it explores the problems of relationships and communication with people of that period, but the main topic - eating disorders - evokes feelings for all readers. The book is written from the first person, so the whole story, the lack of understanding of the situation, the accusations of other people when offering help hits the reader very personally, the second part of the book is difficult to read calmly, the reader feels a kind of tension, the hope that the character will realize what is happening, although at the same time there is a constant knowledge that everything can end very differently.

Although a book is written for young people, it has a serious plot that makes you think about the decisions people make and how they can affect others, often without even realizing that the actions we take might be interpreted completely differently from another person's perspective. The book left a great impression, as did the first season of the series created based on it, but the book explores everything even more extensively. In any case, the book is not for everyone - for some, as far as I understand, the story seems to glamorize suicides, but reading it myself, I did not find where in the book this event is presented as the right way, I think the author makes it clear enough that this is a bad decision. And it was this choice that attracted readers and drew more attention from young people to the problem.

An interestingly written book - like blog posts that constantly adds more to the story told. Sometimes you start reading it like a regular book and only remember that when starting a new chapter. The story is smooth, little by little more details come to light and everything falls into place. It's an interesting story with elements of a horror thriller. If you’re just starting to read horror stories, the plot may seem scary, but if this genre is your favorite, you may not find something very unique or special, but you will read it quickly and it should leave a pretty good impression.

The book, like the film of the same name, examines the relationship between two young people in an unusual situation - when traditional signs of closeness become impossible due to their illness, the couple try to find a way to discover each other and themselves, even when separated by distance, and when even a simple touch is completely impossible. The book makes you think about what people with cystic fibrosis have to go through, also showing that the connection between people is necessary even when there are huge obstacles. The book's plot is almost the same as in the movie, in some chapters it tells the story a little more widely, but not as much as to surprise those who have seen the film. Overall the book is interesting, and although it is dedicated for younger readers, it should be an interesting story for other readers too.

While at first it seemed like a story about how a painfully tragic event might change a person’s life, the initial impression was wrong. An engaging piece with an unexpected ending, that is presented from the perspective of both main characters, allowing the reader to compare different perspectives on life and see how a person with mental disorders evaluates his actions.

It is a book about death. About death as a natural life cycle process. About reconciliation with death, and also about the impossibility of reconciliation. About what a painful process it is for those around the events. The book show Rachel's attitude not to talk about the death as a subject, showing that the death of a loved one is a thing that can destroy another life, develop constant fears that are difficult to get rid of, especially if the death was accompanied by hate. Also, it is a book about how children accept the concept of death, the difficult realization that everything that has a beginning ends. It’s also a dialogue with the reader about the uncertainty of what’s next, if there is anything at all. "Pet Cemetery" is a very clear signal about a person's sacrifice for family, loved ones, but at the same time about the need to evaluate decisions not in a stressful situation, because sometimes spontaneous decisions do not lead to anything good. However, the question is: if there was an opportunity to do something impossible and good for your loved ones, but with a huge risk of getting the situation even worse, would you be determined to do so? Is the phrase "I would do everything for my loved ones" really right? . Overall, this is a fantastic bookng, and I read it very quickly. From that constant curiosity ...

I read the "Cell" immediately after finishing the legendary "Pet Cemetery". I don’t know if because of this reason or because of the stylistics and plot of the novel itself, only the second half of the book became more interested for me. Although the action began on the first pages, it seemed like I was reading a long description of another regular film about an apocalypse and a zombie attack. The idea that mobile phones created an impulse that suddenly forced people to change, at the beginning seemed quite strange and I doubted that it would work in the plot later, but I admit the author did it really masterfully, although some things still seemed pretty funny in the end. It is worth noting that the book was published in 2006, even before the beginning of the era of smartphones, when the number of simple mobile phones on the market was growing, they were rapidly changing the wired phones. Of course, innovation often causes a certain wave of opinion in society - there will always be a group of people who are happy with innovation, who will see new things as a step into the future, but there will also be citizens who have a different opinion, look at everything with a fear of change. It seems that this book might been some kind of reaction of this group, of course, by moving everything into the plot of the horror genre. However, in general, the work certainly did not attract as much as some of the author's other works. If I can read some of Stephen King's books in a day or two because it's just too hard to put them away (this category includes the "Pet Sematary", "Green Mile", "Misery" and a few other pieces), it took much longer for me to complete the "Cell" . I’m not saying the book is bad, and, indeed, I liked it altogether, but compared to other books, this one is, in my opinion, is weaker.