Ways to Live Forever (2019 NE)

I had to read this book for school, and I'm glad I did. It's written beautifully and is fun, exciting, and one of the best books I've ever read. I have absolutely no idea why this book isn't a New York Times bestseller.

I fundraise for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training, and I saw that a friend was teaching this book in his children's literature course, so I decided to pick up a copy to read. While I was dismayed that the book wasn't written by a cancer patient, the book expertly captured a strenuous and challenging chapter of a family's life. Dealing with cancer isn't easy, but Ways to Live Forever somehow painted living with cancer in a positivistic light. The book would be a great read for any parent with a child undergoing cancer treatment, as it advocates helping the child live dreams.

I loved this book. It make me cry, smile, and laugh. I like how they answered his questions at the end of the book.

There are some books which can change your life and I really think that Ways To Live Forever is one of them. In fact, I'm surprised it's not done more in the US market than it already has.It tells the hauntingly believable tale of Sam, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence who has leukaemia. His whole world revolves around this fact - he's home-schooled, his best friend is also sick, and his entire family tiptoes around him. And yet, as life so often proves, it's not full of doom and gloom or death and sickness. In fact, Nicholls' book is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. The different styles of text are witty and Sam is the kind of boy you'll wish was your best friend too. The actual lists for ways to live forever had me grinning at their brilliance. I will admit, however, that I also cried noisily at several parts.Ways to Live Forever is neither mawkish nor sentimental, but it is achingly beautiful, like Fault In Our Stars but for a younger audience. it'll rip your heart out one minute and have you screeching in laughter the next. Bravo, Ms. Nicholls!

This book is adventurous, sad at sometimes and amazing. The reason why I gave it five stars was because of the words, the concept of the book and the plot. I would recommend this book to fifth graders and up because how the main idea could be to matured for fourth graders and below.

I picked his book up on a whim, thought oh this looks interesting. I found myself having read it cover to cover in one sitting.This book is about a fictional 11yr old Sam. Sam has cancer, Although the doctors have tried it is incurable. For the most part everyone knows Sam is dying, and yet life goes on. He goes to a motified version of school, Sees his friend, does little but important stuff. But one day his teacher brought up a idea, to write about something. Sam is caught up in the idea of writting and creates this book. He calls it his way of living forever because even though some of the ideas he came up with as things he wanted to do before he died and thought were impossible he found simple but possible ways to do them.

This book was just okay. It didn't really make me feel much of anything, so I will not give it many stars.

good book to read. Creative story. Interesting plot line. But I would say it would be better if the main character does not die in the end.

I first heard this an audiobook as a kid. Me and my family listened to it in the car, and while I didn't remember most of it, the ending really stuck with me. About a year later, I was diagnosed with cancer. I went through chemo, and unlike Sam, I came out the other side. I sought the book out again as an adult. This book is so unbelievably heartbreaking, but most of all, it's real. This is exactly what it's like. For the parents, for the kid, for the siblings - so much so that I was expecting to discover that the author has been through it all herself. It will haunt you for a long time after you finish it.

Gerade eben habe ich dieses traurige, fröhliche, kindliche, erwachsene, philosophische, liebevolle, schmerzende Buch zu Ende gelesen und muss, entgegen meiner Gewohnheit, sofort versuchen, eine Rezension zu schreiben. Dies tue ich, während mir noch die Tränen in den Augen stehen und ich einen gewaltigen Kloß im Hals habe. Das Ende des Buches tut dem Leser weh, obwohl es von der ersten Seite an abzusehen ist, dass Sam, der elfjährige Protagonist, an seiner Leukämie sterben wird. Was ihm und seiner Familie bleibt, ist, aus der noch übrigen Zeit (bis zu einem Jahr, sagen die Ärzte mit vorsichtigem Optmimismus) das Beste zu machen. Tatsächlich sind es dann nur drei Monate. Klingt unerträglich, und ist es auch, aber trotzdem ist es ein Buch, das bis zum Ende vor allem auch vom Leben erzählt, von Wünschen, und wie sie in Erfüllung gehen können, auch wenn die äußeren Umstände so unfair sind, wie sie sind. Es ist sogar oft ein heiteres Buch.Erzählt wird aus Sams Perspektive, es ist sein Buch. Und das seines Freundes Felix, der selbst todkrank ist und dieses Schicksal mit einer Mischung aus Lebensfreude und tiefschwarzem Humor bewältigt.Manches ist schon ziemlich heftig zu lesen., Etwa, wenn Sam und Felix sich darüber unterhalten, dass Sam sein Buch natürlich nicht GANZ bis zum Ende selbst wird schreiben können, und Felix seinem Feund vorschlägt, eine Liste zum Ankreuzen zu machen, die dann seine Eltern ausfüllen sollen:"Sam's death was:a. Peacefulb. Horrible and agonizingly painful.c. Kind of in the middle.d. We don't know - we were at the chip shop.e. Other, please specify." (63)Sally Nicholls versetzt sich sehr glaubwürdig - auch sprachlich - in die Gefühlswelt ihres Protagonisten. Auf den knappen 200 Seiten werden dabei ganz elementare Fragen gestellt und in Sam's und Felix' eigener Art beantwortet: Wie weiß man eigentlich, dass man gestorben ist? Warum müssen Menschen sterben? Wohin kommt man, nachdem man gestorben ist? Erwachsene Leser sollten sich nicht davon abschrecken lassen, dass der Protagonist erst elf Jahre alt und seine Ansichten und Einsichten eben zum Teil auch kindlich sind - auf diese großen nicht zu beantwortenden Fragen gibt es wohl nicht wirklich "erwachsene" und "kindliche" Antworten."Ways to Live Forever" steht für mich gleichberechtigt neben dem anderen großen Buch der letzten Jahre, das das Thema Krebs und Tod bei jungen Menschen behandelt. Die Rede ist natürlich von John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars". Es ist auch, und vielleicht gerade, für erwachsene Leser eine echte Empfehlung.

Una historia como esta se lee pocas veces y por su precio vale mucho la pena comprar este artículo. ale.

Before I bought this I thought that it may appeal to a wider range of audience than simply just children, like many others e.g Harry Potter. But sadly that's not the case. At first I knew it was going to be a sad story (actually hoped), because the kid got cancer :[ ... i was hoping it'll be something on the lines of 'Perks of being a Wallflower', as they both have that diary/journal extra feel, but I kind of felt like the story wasn't really going anywhere for me. So I haven't finished it because I stopped reading it. But I definitely think it'll appeal to many others, and it is written well.... but it just lacks substance for me.P.s I'm not really that old, only turned 22 about a month ago,

This is a book, that depending on what age you are when you first read it, will have a different effect on you.Being a child, they will enjoy this. More than likely, they won't understand the true meaning and complexity of the story. The themes that are dealt with. Of course they'll find parts sad and then happy, a roller coaster, but once they've finished this book it will escape their mind.Being an adult this book will haunt you, long after you've finished reading it. You'll find this moving, honest, heart warming and in all honesty, eye opening. A parent's worse nightmare is to loose a child, especially a young child, all the emotion and feelings that you have to deal with. However, what about the child's feelings? What do they understand?In this book we see his braveness, his understanding, his acknowledgement of what is happening and the acceptance of it.All of which, will make you upset. More than the child next to you who is also sitting and reading along with you.