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some people are careless, and in an adrenaline-fueled all-caps teen reviewing frenzy, will inadvertently give a major spoiler for this book.
avoid these people, even though ordinarily, they are pretty cool.
this is a really well-written teen fiction book. i mean, it won the printz award, i'm not discovering america here. i think i wanted to emphasize that it definitely reads like a book intended for a teen audience. and i think that me as a teen would have numbered this among my very favorite book ...more
avoid these people, even though ordinarily, they are pretty cool.
this is a really well-written teen fiction book. i mean, it won the printz award, i'm not discovering america here. i think i wanted to emphasize that it definitely reads like a book intended for a teen audience. and i think that me as a teen would have numbered this among my very favorite book ...more
Until this past August, I always felt left out when people started talking about what a talented writer John Green is. Most bloggers seem to love his books and while I knew he makes great videos, I’d never read any of his books, even though I wanted to do so and own all of his books. I recently felt an incredibly strong pull towards John Green’s Looking for Alaska and followed it. Filled with brilliant prose, quirky characters and a heartbreaking storyline, Looking for Alaska is one of the best ...more
John Green's a good friend of mine, although he doesn't know it. He stops by my classroom every now and then to teach a lesson. (view spoiler) We're both Hoosiers, and we share many of the same views on politics and education.
But my BEST friend HATED this book.
She gave it two stars. She reserves the dreaded "one star review" for books she disliked so much that she didn't finish. But then, she feels like she can't give the book a rating or review, because sh ...more
But my BEST friend HATED this book.
She gave it two stars. She reserves the dreaded "one star review" for books she disliked so much that she didn't finish. But then, she feels like she can't give the book a rating or review, because sh ...more
Well done literary YA. It was weird reading a boarding school book set in present day Alabama rather than, like, 1950s England. But I can see why there's been so much buzz about this (tho' you do have to have a stomach for reading about boys mooning over girls), and it obviously made a big impact on its target audience -- in the back of the library copy, several kids had written their own advice for life. N'awww.
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So good. So sad. Quirky without being annoying, this novel touches all the important points (plus has sex!) of growing up: independence, grief, mortality, the faults of grown-ups, the power of education, the influence of friendships.
Miles Halter isn't sure what to expect when he arrives at his new boarding school in Alabama. All he knows for sure is that life at Culver Creek has to be better than the mundane subsistence he had in his Florida hometown. Memorizing famous last words can only take a young man so far in life, so Miles decides to head off into the great unknown--or, as Francois Rabelais put it right before he died, off to seek the Great Perhaps.
What Miles find is unexpected. In addition to earning a nickname (Pud ...more
What Miles find is unexpected. In addition to earning a nickname (Pud ...more
John Green books appear to be the answer to my reading slump....
On the scale of tears, this one is low (I did not shed one); however, it definitely packs a punch. I liked the use of the countdown because I kept reading to find out what happened and I like how Green always manages to throw in some random trivia, but I felt a little distant from the characters.
I don't want to say too much because I don't want to ruin anything for those just getting to this one.... ...more
On the scale of tears, this one is low (I did not shed one); however, it definitely packs a punch. I liked the use of the countdown because I kept reading to find out what happened and I like how Green always manages to throw in some random trivia, but I felt a little distant from the characters.
I don't want to say too much because I don't want to ruin anything for those just getting to this one.... ...more
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This was the best book I've read in a long time. It's supposed to be a YA book, and I wish the rest of the genre was written as well as this one was. It managed to avoid the shallow character development that most contemporary YA suffers from. I really enjoyed it and recommend it to everybody. The book explored some pretty adult themes and the characterization was great. A great coming-of-age story that deserves to be compared to A Separate Peace, or The Catcher in the Rye as one reviewer did. I
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This book is, quite simply, fucking great. I can't believe I have never been on the John Green wagon before this. I'm sorry, John Green. Forgive me. This is the first book I've read in ages (and I read well over 100 books per year) that made me feel completely engrossed and invested in STORY, not just interested in being a scholar.
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This one rates right up there with Catcher in the Rye and Perks of Being a Wallflower! A great coming of age story. I love the main character,Pudge and I think anyone can relate to his search for the great perhaps.
Jan 24, 2010
katie
marked it as to-read
Aug 14, 2011
erin
marked it as to-read
Oct 20, 2013
Leah
marked it as to-read
Nov 17, 2014
Morgan
marked it as to-read-ya
