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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth (2016)

Tekijä: Lindsey Lee Johnson

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty??the American high school??in this captivating debut novel.

The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities money can buy, these vulnerable kids are navigating a treacherous adolescence in which every action, every rumor, every feeling, is potentially postable, shareable, viral.

Lindsey Lee Johnson??s kaleidoscopic narrative exposes at every turn the real human beings beneath the high school stereotypes. Abigail Cress is ticking off the boxes toward the Ivy League when she makes the first impulsive decision of her life: entering into an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. Dave Chu, who knows himself at heart to be a typical B student, takes desperate measures to live up to his parents?? crushing expectations. Emma Fleed, a gifted dancer, balances rigorous rehearsals with wild weekends. Damon Flintov returns from a stint at rehab looking to prove that he??s not an irredeemable screwup. And Calista Broderick, once part of the popular crowd, chooses, for reasons of her own, to become a hippie outcast.

Into this complicated web, an idealistic young English teacher arrives from a poorer, scruffier part of California. Molly Nicoll strives to connect with her students??without understanding the middle school tragedy that played out online and has continued to reverberate in different ways for all of them.

Written with the rare talent capable of turning teenage drama into urgent, adult fiction, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth makes vivid a modern adolescence lived in the gleam of the virtual, but rich with sorrow, passion, and humanity.

Praise for The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

??Alarming, compelling . . . Here??s high school life in all its madness.???The New York Times
 
??Unputdownable.???Elle
 
??Impossibly funny and achingly sad . . . [Lindsey Lee] Johnson cracks open adolescent angst with adult sensibility and sensitivity.???San Francisco Chronicle
 
??[A] piercing debut . . . Johnson proves herself a master of the coming-of-age story.???The Boston Globe
 
??Entrancing . . . Johnson??s novel possesses a propulsive quality. . . . Hard to put down.???Chicago Tribune
 
??Readers may find themselves so swept up in this enthralling novel that they finish it in
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I don’t know, I guess I expected more from this book. I get that it is fiction, and Yes I get that the kids are ultra privileged, intensely narcissistic, many exhibit behaviors bordering on those associated with sociopaths and psychopaths, they have no concept of money, and their entire world is materialistic. Granted when this describes the people being written about it is hard to be sympathetic to them or anything that happens to them. Oftentimes the behavior of the parents is just as bad, if not worse because they are the ones enabling their kids to behave this way and then are shocked by what degenerates their kids become.
Then there were the teachers in the book, who were afraid of both the kids and the parents so they also didn’t care what happened to these kids. Except the new teacher who thought she could “connect with the teenage monsters, and of course this desire blows up in her face.
I guess we just have to hope that these kids are the minority, otherwise there is zero hope for the future. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Morality tales. A lot of suspense for a quick read but my eyes kept rolling in the last half of the book. ( )
  ezmerelda | Mar 8, 2023 |
I am so glad I went to school back in the day and I'm out now! Things have changed so much with teachers and students. You didn't dare get smart with your teacher or whoa! I'm sure there must have been some bullying back then but not like there is now. Although the book is fiction, it is an eye opener as to what goes on in your child's life outside the house. We always tell them, you think you have it tough now, wait until your an adult. Geez, they just might find it a little easier. ( )
  buukluvr | Feb 14, 2023 |
I am so glad I went to school back in the day and I'm out now! Things have changed so much with teachers and students. You didn't dare get smart with your teacher or whoa! I'm sure there must have been some bullying back then but not like there is now. Although the book is fiction, it is an eye opener as to what goes on in your child's life outside the house. We always tell them, you think you have it tough now, wait until your an adult. Geez, they just might find it a little easier. ( )
  buukluvr | Feb 14, 2023 |
Take a haunting walk down a high school hallway

This book is meant to be binge read, and I devoured it like a guilty pleasure. You almost feel like the characters are stereotypical, except that you remember each one of these people during your own high school experience. The author touches on the onslaught of social issues that teenagers face, from today’s bullying and hyper exposure to social media, to the classic, drugs, alcohol, partying, popularity, etc., added in with the ever growing pressure to succeed. Each issue presented in a way that doesn’t feel like an after-school special, yet more palatable than an MTV sitcom. I cringed as I remember my days of awkwardness and thanked my lucky stars Facebook and Instagram hadn’t yet come to fruition. Similarly, I shudder to think that my daughter will be a teenager in seven years and can’t imagine what new horrors she will have to face. You come to know each character as their lives intermingle, so different yet all the same in their insecurities and trying to find their place in the looming “real world” they will soon enter.

Even while still reading, I itched to write this review, so many thoughts swirling in my head as I nostalgically recalled my own experiences in the horrid hallways of high school. Personally, I could identify with each character in some way, wishing I could impart my own wisdom to help ease the burden on these fictional souls. You want to scream at them, “No, stop, don’t!” Teachers dealing with that fine line between friend and professionalism, teetering as their hearts go out to kids that think their adults. Wanting to reach an unreachable age while maintaining proper distance, letting them know they’ve been there and survived, but not without their own invisible scars.

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth poignantly pegs the inner turmoil of adolescence, stirring up memories of a time where you wanted nothing but to break free; remembering why you don’t ever want to go back.
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  LiteraryGadd | Jan 16, 2023 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty??the American high school??in this captivating debut novel.

The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities money can buy, these vulnerable kids are navigating a treacherous adolescence in which every action, every rumor, every feeling, is potentially postable, shareable, viral.

Lindsey Lee Johnson??s kaleidoscopic narrative exposes at every turn the real human beings beneath the high school stereotypes. Abigail Cress is ticking off the boxes toward the Ivy League when she makes the first impulsive decision of her life: entering into an inappropriate relationship with a teacher. Dave Chu, who knows himself at heart to be a typical B student, takes desperate measures to live up to his parents?? crushing expectations. Emma Fleed, a gifted dancer, balances rigorous rehearsals with wild weekends. Damon Flintov returns from a stint at rehab looking to prove that he??s not an irredeemable screwup. And Calista Broderick, once part of the popular crowd, chooses, for reasons of her own, to become a hippie outcast.

Into this complicated web, an idealistic young English teacher arrives from a poorer, scruffier part of California. Molly Nicoll strives to connect with her students??without understanding the middle school tragedy that played out online and has continued to reverberate in different ways for all of them.

Written with the rare talent capable of turning teenage drama into urgent, adult fiction, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth makes vivid a modern adolescence lived in the gleam of the virtual, but rich with sorrow, passion, and humanity.

Praise for The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

??Alarming, compelling . . . Here??s high school life in all its madness.???The New York Times
 
??Unputdownable.???Elle
 
??Impossibly funny and achingly sad . . . [Lindsey Lee] Johnson cracks open adolescent angst with adult sensibility and sensitivity.???San Francisco Chronicle
 
??[A] piercing debut . . . Johnson proves herself a master of the coming-of-age story.???The Boston Globe
 
??Entrancing . . . Johnson??s novel possesses a propulsive quality. . . . Hard to put down.???Chicago Tribune
 
??Readers may find themselves so swept up in this enthralling novel that they finish it in

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