Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

The book arrived in good condition and I have written the review in the picture shared :)

Very good

Overall great.

The book we didn't know we needed. I was quite happy with where the previous book ended. But reading about Ari and Dante's relationship and Ari's relationship with everyone else while finally opening up to his friends was really the best thing ever.Please do read this you guys if you loved Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe. You will absolutely not regret this.

Book is completely new and in a really good condition.I am really in love with the cover of this book

I love how psychologically this book is so correct and d chemistry ⚗️ oF ari and dante is perfect it my new fav book after they both die at end🥲

Packing and the quality of the product is awesome.

Good

Ele chegou bem embalado e sem nenhuma avaria

Aún mejor que el primero. Gracias al autor por regalarnos una historia tan real y auténtica.

In 2012, Benjamin Alire Saenz published Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, a gay-themed YA romance marked by a startling economy of language and two entirely winning protagonists. The newly-published (2021) sequel is called Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World, which takes off immediately from where the first book ended. Aristotle’s confusion and reluctance have been settled (to some degree), love has been declared and returned. So—where do we go from here? It is the nineteen-eighties, with AIDS creeping into people’s minds, and homophobia is still the norm—though not, fortunately, with either boy’s parents, who are not the disapproving manikins of so much YA fiction--and Waters of the World is the cartography (the analogy Aristotle uses himself) of both boys’ attempts to find their place to be—among friends, among teachers, among family—as they acknowledge the looming disruption of finishing high school and the prospect of separation as they pursue education and career. There are other ghosts to lay—Aristotle’s brother is in jail for having killed a transgender prostitute, and his father is only slowly emerging from a post-Vietnam PTSD. Part of what is effective here is that the issues the book deals with do not appear as abstractions, but as embodiment in convincing characters—no ideas but in people and dialogue. What is also marvelous and surprising, perhaps especially to a reader who grew up in the emotional silences of New England, is the clear-minded emotional articulacy, even the loquacity of the characters. I raised my eyebrow at this more than once—is this, I ask in ignorance, an aspect of Mexican or Mexican-American culture?—but it is part of the map that Saenz himself is delineating: in The Waters of the World we are seeing the cartography of a world in which someone like Aristotle can flower. Not only did I buy it while I was reading it, I found myself moved, time after time, by the generosity and kindness of Aristotle’s elders, and the safe space it provides for their children. One of the oft-unacknowledged sources of emotion in a work of literature is to see people expressing love and admiration for each other—saying it out loud. We so seldom hear these words spoken that, with the quick, easy purity of Saenz’s writing, it’s like the opposite of a sucker-punch. It’s like a gift, with a kick to it. And Saenz shows his young audience enormous respect: the language is swift and simple, and while he observes the conventions of YA fiction—no explicit sex, for one—we never see him looking over the shoulders of his younger readers and winking at the adults. By the end, Aristotle has gone through two unforeseen losses: one a liberation, the other a genuine and terrible sadness. Dante and Aristotle’s dialogue bounces with joy and wit and with unexpectedly complicated harmonies; they also get on without those tiresome invented spats writers always had to throw between Fred and Ginger. Their final resolution—with the unexpected and moving help of Eugene Delacroix, of all people, and a precisely timed quote from the earlier book—never quite allows us to forget the grip and fire of the time these two young men have had to get through, and which Saenz conveys with an immediacy that leaves you a little winded. It’s called adolescence. It’s amazing any of us make it out alive.

For me, parts of the story brought back sad memories of AIDS and the early days, and I try not to think about that time. Like the author, I lost my brother to the condition, and I thought, "It could happen to me." I was closeted then much because of the time, much because I couldn't defend myself, and because I was scared. I watched a lot of young men who died while visiting my brother in his hospital stays, many young men with promising, creative, and rewarding lives.I always knew I was gay, although I didn't always know what it was or what the word was to describe myself. At first, all I knew I was that I was different and I didn't fit in. But it wasn't just because I was gay - I am disabled too.When I first came out, I decided that I would just be me. I never worried about what other gays thought. I didn't let my disability prevent me from picking up guys. I went with those who were interested and ignored those people who weren't. I made lots of friends, and some became an extended family of sorts. Generally, gays tend to pick their own families.I am a lot like Ari in that I am always "in my head." In contrast, my Doug reminds me of Dante a lot. Yes, the characters remind me of us, except we are much older than the two young men depicted in this story.It's nice to see a lovely story about two men falling in love. When I grew up, gay stories carried a lot of strife, struggle, and usually ended in death.

I was lucky to have it after I've read the 1st one (Aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe) because it was a real page turner.It was SO GOOD.Damn 🫢🫰