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    <body><![CDATA[I've been getting in touch with my inner Young Adult this week, in preparation for yet another final rewrite on my own YA book. This has, for the most part, amounted to listening to Death Cab for Cutie and reading Looking for Alaska - a book that I have been actively avoiding. The story of this is l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21051374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read <em>Looking For Alaska</em> mostly because I wanted to know what all the hype was about... I heard so much about young author John Green and how great his first prize-winning young adult novel was.  Well, now I understand why so many people are excited about this beautifully written book.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18926447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Looking for Alaska, by John Green, was the winner of the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award.<br/><br/>“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”  - Last words of Francois Rabelais<br/><br/>“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”  - Last words of Simon Bolivar<br/><br/>Miles Halter, a sixteen year ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28057588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>*SPOILER ALERT* This review contains plot information that some people feel gives away too much of the book.  To me, the story isn't about the event occurring as much as it is about how it is dealt with among the characters - it's not the &quot;surprise ending&quot; I'm giving away.  Don't rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1905406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh. My. Goodness.<br/><br/>Let's have a chat about Looking for Alaska, yes?<br/><br/>I discovered this book on a video blog in which the author was attempting to explain why parents were trying to censor his book in public schools without actually reading because &quot;you don't need to have can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14948229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[O.K. I think that this must be the best book I've read this year! This one has been on my list for over a year and I finally checked it out to see what all the fuss was about. First off, let me explain about the fuss. The media specialist that I worked with purchased this book for the middle school ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36319728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before:<br/>I bought this for my class forever ago, but I haven't had  the chance to read it because I have a group of girls who devour my Printz winners.  Anyway, they wouldn't let me have it.  I threated, I cajoled, I pleaded.  They wouldn't budge.  They all finally finished it, though, so it's g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24416725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Looking For Alaska, John Green tells the story of Miles, a smart, skinny teen who decides to go to the same boarding school his father attended in the hopes of finding a different life. The reader gets a glimpse of what Miles’ home life is like at the beginning of the novel when his mother thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2942620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I might adjust my 5 star rating to four after a little time has passed, but at the moment, only minutes after finishing the book, I am still feeling deeply satisfied. This is what it is to be a teenager. These are the questions you deal with. No matter how distant or similar your high school experie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14007389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did not finish.  <br/><br/>This book was just too much--too much smoking, drinking, sex, and foul language.  As a teenager, I hated it then and I don't want to rehash it now.  I didn't care about any of the characters except Miles and I hated how he just went along with everything thrown in his pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45482112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miles Halter is a young man who is fascinated by the last words of people.  He's read a ton of biographies about various personalities from history and collects their final words.<br/><br/>Miles decides to attend a boarding school in Alabama, where he meets his new roommate, the Colonel and the my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51926412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the first half of this book. But once it reaches the unnecessary tragedy in the middle, the whole thing goes downhill, basically turning into a soap opera. The second half of it was simply painful to read. Also, the main character wasn't interesting enough. I didn't feel saddened by this n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15350287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I first picked up <u>Looking for Alaska</u> because I liked the cover but also because the author, John Green, sounded interesting.  When I first started reading the book and began following the typical storyline of a loser kid going to boarding school, I was disappointed.  However, once I got into it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9120102">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason I didn’t cry—both in laughter and in sorrow—was because I finished the book in a food court. And I'm in a fairly happy-go-lucky state of mind these days. Were I anything less, I think I would be shattered on the floor (in the best possible way). <br/><br/>I was skeptical when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19298376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a decent book. I pretty much devoured it despite a big qualm. Perhaps it's sour grapes but why perpetuate the age-old idea that hot teen girls who are emotionally tore up = glittery/alluring? What about girls with tore-up physiques AND tore-up emotions? Oh, silly me. They’re repugnant. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Green, you are awesome. I feel like I should have seen the end (or rather the middle) coming...Especially because of the whole structure and the foreshadowing. But I didn't. And even when I kind of did I went into denial about it because I liked the story so much and didn't want...that thing......<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4212044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in about one day, which isn't necessarily the most reliable indicator of a book's pull on my sensibilities because I can fly through chick-lit and vapid YA books in a matter of hours, but it does serve as an independent variable in my evaluation of my impressions of this novel. (Not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46612398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even when I was in high school, I was extremely annoyed with how some teens acted like their mission in life was to simply smoke, drink and get it on.  That being said, I liked the book only at times.  I felt most of the characters in this novel to be shallow and boring.  Why parents send their chil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45683006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had been living in my TBR stack for ages and out of sheer boredom, I finally picked it up and began reading.  Now that I have, I kind of feel bad that I waited to so long to do so.  The book was quirky and completely hilarious at moments, although those moments tended to be completely ridi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48320475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first book for the Dewey's Books Reading Challenge, and it was totally awesome (do I sound like I'm reverting to teenager-hood? I don't mean to.). So awesome, in fact, that I ran out and bought John Green's other books. And I can't wait to read them.<br/><br/>Technically, this is a YA b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46401981">more...</a>]]></body>
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