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I also became obsessed with Ethan Hawke this year and I had it so bad for him that I even read his debut novel.
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William conoce a Sarah en Nueva York. Ella es una chica poco convencional y él un egocéntrico que nunca se ha preocupado por los demás.
Entre los dos surge una atracción que avanza de manera cautelosa hasta convertirse en una obsesión desgarradora. La novela explora el agridulce campo de los sentimientos -el impulso del deseo y el choque del rechazo- de dos jóvenes protagonistas que hablan mucho de su pasión y de sus padres divorciados, y que no parecen sentirse a gusto en el mundo que les ha tocado vivir.
Ethan Hawke nos lleva a través del doloroso pasaje de William desde el egoísmo y la indiferencia a la sabiduría que sólo han alcanzado los que ha sobrevivido a una lacerante historia de amor. A pesar de ser su primera novela, el autor demuestra tener una extraordinaria capacidad para expresar las complicadas relaciones de pareja y los sentimientos de una generación individualista y desorientada, pero al mismo tiempo muy necesitada de afecto.
Una novela conmovedora sobre el primer amor; el entusiasmo de encontrarlo y la agonía de perderlo.
Entre los dos surge una atracción que avanza de manera cautelosa hasta convertirse en una obsesión desgarradora. La novela explora el agridulce campo de los sentimientos -el impulso del deseo y el choque del rechazo- de dos jóvenes protagonistas que hablan mucho de su pasión y de sus padres divorciados, y que no parecen sentirse a gusto en el mundo que les ha tocado vivir.
Ethan Hawke nos lleva a través del doloroso pasaje de William desde el egoísmo y la indiferencia a la sabiduría que sólo han alcanzado los que ha sobrevivido a una lacerante historia de amor. A pesar de ser su primera novela, el autor demuestra tener una extraordinaria capacidad para expresar las complicadas relaciones de pareja y los sentimientos de una generación individualista y desorientada, pero al mismo tiempo muy necesitada de afecto.
Una novela conmovedora sobre el primer amor; el entusiasmo de encontrarlo y la agonía de perderlo.
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First published January 1,1996
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0 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1996 by Destino Ediciones
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9788423333646
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8423333647
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Spanish; Castilian
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Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author, and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013. Hawke received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014) and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Other notable roles include in Reality Bites (1994), Gattaca (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Maggie's Plan (2015), First Reformed (2017), The Black Phone (2021), and The Northman (2022).
Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). He created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.
In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West.
He has received numerous nominations including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Hawke directed the narrative films Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006), and Blaze (2018) as well as the documentary Seymour: An Introduction (2014). He created, co-wrote and starred as John Brown in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird (2018), and directed the HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars (2022). He starred in the Marvel television miniseries Moon Knight (2022) as Arthur Harrow.
In addition to his film work, Hawke has appeared in many theater productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007 for his performance in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia. In 2010, Hawke directed Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2018, he starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Sam Shepard's play True West.
He has received numerous nominations including a total of four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
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I think Ethan Hawke is the least talented published author I have ever come across.
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The Hottest State was all about a guy named William that never really cared too much about anyone. Things kind of just came easy to him & he got whatever he wanted until he meets a girl named Sarah and all that changes. Williams relationship with Sarah takes him on this very unexpected journey of emotions he had never felt before. He starts to fall deeply in love without even knowing it and these feelings for Sarah cause him to do very unnecessary things. William then begins to lose himself over this experience.
Ethan Hawke is an actor, author, and director. He is from New York, which is where I am from as well. The fact that Hawke is an actor and director helps with his writing because he knows what type of movies or books people would be entertained by and will enjoy. He mostly shows his skills in directing in this novel because of all the action and detail involved in the novel.
Overall this book is a 4. I would read more books like these. This novel really showed me how strong and powerful love really is and how much it can control a person the do things they wouldn’t normally do. I would recommend this book to teenagers because it can show them how even adults go through all this pain. The fact that adults don’t know everything and have all their lives figured out can really open a teenagers eyes into realizing that they have time and they are not alone.
Ethan Hawke is an actor, author, and director. He is from New York, which is where I am from as well. The fact that Hawke is an actor and director helps with his writing because he knows what type of movies or books people would be entertained by and will enjoy. He mostly shows his skills in directing in this novel because of all the action and detail involved in the novel.
Overall this book is a 4. I would read more books like these. This novel really showed me how strong and powerful love really is and how much it can control a person the do things they wouldn’t normally do. I would recommend this book to teenagers because it can show them how even adults go through all this pain. The fact that adults don’t know everything and have all their lives figured out can really open a teenagers eyes into realizing that they have time and they are not alone.
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I like Ethan Hawke as an actor. He’s quite understated, yet intense. Sensitive and self-aware. And he surely has playing the broody, conflicted man/boy down. Those character-centric qualities are ever-present in his first novel, The Hottest State, though they certainly don’t translate as well through his words as they do through his performances.
I must admit I was intrigued to read this because I had read most negative reviews of it. Why that piques my interest, I couldn’t say. I don’t typically seek out reading novels written by celebrities. In fact, I don’t think I ever have read one written by anyone else. But I just sort of stumbled on it while perusing the bookshelves at the library and thought, why not give it a go?
It’s not bad. It’s just…forgettable. The protagonist is needy and pathetic. He latches on to a plain-Jane girl, Sarah, and becomes instantly enamored with her and grows increasingly frustrated when he can’t quite figure her out, or why she doesn’t reciprocate his feelings in the some comparable manner. She is guarded and cautious, scared and self-conscious. And because it told in first person from William’s perspective, as readers, we aren’t privy to the inner workings of Sarah. But William speculates and obsesses. And he has strange urges, such as hoping she will get pregnant or spontaneously proposing marriage. He recognizes his oddities and attributes them to a childhood of being raised without a father. He laments on the memories he has of his father, how he wishes he could have been there. How he wouldn’t be so fucked up of he were.
It’s isn’t some psychological examination, this novel. It takes place in a rather short span of time. A few weeks, really. That’s how long it takes for this relationship to begin and blossom and then deteriorate and end. More than anything it is a coming-of-age story about a man in his early twenties trying to figure out a way to exist in a world he doesn’t quite like or understand.
As for the creative merits of the book, there are few. The prose is pedestrian and plain, lacking any sense of whimsy or flow. It could almost be a diary for William. Likewise, the dialogue is sort of odd an unnatural in many instances, often times taking you out of the story.
I can’t say I recommend it. Again, it’s not bad. It’s just missing something, I think. And I suppose it didn’t help that I found the protagonist kind of unlikable. He even creeped me out a bit. In the end, I just didn’t understand how he formed such intense emotions and pursued this romantic relationship. At times, he didn’t even seem to like Sarah. SO why bother?
I guess the same could be said for The Hottest State.
I must admit I was intrigued to read this because I had read most negative reviews of it. Why that piques my interest, I couldn’t say. I don’t typically seek out reading novels written by celebrities. In fact, I don’t think I ever have read one written by anyone else. But I just sort of stumbled on it while perusing the bookshelves at the library and thought, why not give it a go?
It’s not bad. It’s just…forgettable. The protagonist is needy and pathetic. He latches on to a plain-Jane girl, Sarah, and becomes instantly enamored with her and grows increasingly frustrated when he can’t quite figure her out, or why she doesn’t reciprocate his feelings in the some comparable manner. She is guarded and cautious, scared and self-conscious. And because it told in first person from William’s perspective, as readers, we aren’t privy to the inner workings of Sarah. But William speculates and obsesses. And he has strange urges, such as hoping she will get pregnant or spontaneously proposing marriage. He recognizes his oddities and attributes them to a childhood of being raised without a father. He laments on the memories he has of his father, how he wishes he could have been there. How he wouldn’t be so fucked up of he were.
It’s isn’t some psychological examination, this novel. It takes place in a rather short span of time. A few weeks, really. That’s how long it takes for this relationship to begin and blossom and then deteriorate and end. More than anything it is a coming-of-age story about a man in his early twenties trying to figure out a way to exist in a world he doesn’t quite like or understand.
As for the creative merits of the book, there are few. The prose is pedestrian and plain, lacking any sense of whimsy or flow. It could almost be a diary for William. Likewise, the dialogue is sort of odd an unnatural in many instances, often times taking you out of the story.
I can’t say I recommend it. Again, it’s not bad. It’s just missing something, I think. And I suppose it didn’t help that I found the protagonist kind of unlikable. He even creeped me out a bit. In the end, I just didn’t understand how he formed such intense emotions and pursued this romantic relationship. At times, he didn’t even seem to like Sarah. SO why bother?
I guess the same could be said for The Hottest State.
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OMG YOU GUYS did you know that Ethan Hawke wrote a novel? Two novels, actually. And now you know all that you need to know about this book.
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I don’t even fully understand why in giving this book a 5 stars. I don’t know how to describe this book. I don’t know how to summarize this book. To be honest i don’t even know how to give a review on this book. Not because it was bad, but because it was so captivating. the entire time i’m reading this book, i scratch my head on what the characters are experiencing or doing. For some odd reason, i loved the story. It was so raw, vivid and real. Because of that, i couldn’t put it down, i read it in a day. As i’m writing this, i’m still confused why i’m giving it 5 stars. Maybe ill never know why, maybe its a mystery.
a must read if you want a raw and not so happy romance.
a must read if you want a raw and not so happy romance.
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If you are running out of reasons to find Ethan Hawke annoying, hunt down a copy of this and try reading the first chapter or two.
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Pure literary sewage of the Generation X slacker milieu that one finds depicted in movies like the author's Reality Bites or by limited film director Kevin Smith. It is a simple story that masquerades as a complex, insightful, and pretentious one depicting the pathetic romance between a temper tantrum throwing Texan with mommy and daddy troubles and his girlfriend who won't sleep with him. The book does deserve at least one star for the complaints that it got for its depiction of women.
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