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Looking for Alaska

John Green

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Jan 27, 2015 Jodez rated it really liked it

Shelves: pop-sugar-challenge-2015, book-riot-challenge-2015

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Looking for Alaska - John Green Not my favourite John Green book (Currently that honour goes to Paper Towns)... but it still hit me right in the feels.

I didn't feel it was as polished as his other books, being the first, and his characters lacked the depth that his later books have, but as it was still well written.

SPOILERy bits and my own thoughts/experiences to follow.

Firstly, the bit I didn't like... the counting the layers thing. JUST PLAIN CREEPY. Do teenage boys really think like ...more

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Jul 19, 2015 Subtle Bookworm added it

Shelves: 2015-bookshelf

One novel that has put me in a transit -'I just want to flip to the next', my mind says. Miller Halters who with his boring life searches for 'the Great Perhaps' and meets Alaska who gives her hope of 'the Great Perhaps' till she is gone. They look for her but now she is like a great land...nobody knows where to exactly find her. Perhaps I should do this....perhaps I should do that...Should I? Perhaps! ☺
Author of 'The Fault In Our Stars'
Travelled through 136 days to the past of Miller and travel ...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Brittany rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya-challenge-5, pbs-great-american-read

Wow. I am surprised at how much I really liked this book. I really liked all the characters because they gave so much information about them. You felt like you really got to know them. I don't normally get upset when reading books but there were parts that were really upsetting (not going to give anything away about the book). The only character I was not really fond of was Jake. He was so important to Alaska but for some reason he was kind of foreign to me. I thought they played out his adjustm ...more

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Dec 30, 2014 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: teen-tragedy, 2015-reads

I have now read three John Green books, in this order: The Fault in Our Stars, An Abundance of Katherines, and Looking for Alaska. It just so happens that I also prefer them in that order. Alaska is another great read, as all of Green's novels are, but I have been so spoiled by Fault that the other two just can't measure up. Get your tissues out when you read this one, folks.

Read if you like:
-John Green novels
-Famous last words
-Foul-mouthed, Mercurial teen girls
-Boarding schools
-People with nic ...more

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Aug 03, 2014 Loralee rated it really liked it

After reading Fault In Our Starts, I was curious about John Green's previous works. Looking For Alaska did not disappoint.
Joh Green is one of the best YA fiction authors! ...more

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