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There's nothing like a good boarding school novel (there's a reason that some many of those books from the early 1900s are set in them....take a bunch of kids away from their parents and give them limited adult supervision - a recipe for good times). I also absolutely adore that John Green's YA characters are so very smart - I feel like there are a generation of junior high school students who finally feel like someone is speaking to them (he's their Judy Blume, I suppose).
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I am incredibly thankful that John Green exists and has chosen to share his writing with the world. Having watched the vlogbrothers for about two years, I intended to read his writing, but I had not yet run into any of the books physically. A new roommate delivered this to my bed, a sure way for a book to jump to the front of my to-read list. Green's prose gives pause and begs to be reread in order to seep deeper into the mind, and his exploration of grief is impressive and lasting. I am looking
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Quirky but generic everykid protagonist, manic pixie dream girl (self-destructive variety) to seem available but be unattainable and who Teaches Life Lessons, largely parent-free environment so the kids can learn those lessons on their own, and a Big Event That Ends Their Innocence... I've heard this one before. It's competently written, maybe even skillful, but there's not enough New in here to make it feel anything but formulaic. I'd probably have liked it a lot better at 14, but at nearly 37,
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Looking for Alaska was so incredible real so much so that it was actually hard to read at points. I laughed, I cried and I lived through this story. I had already had my "coming of age" years before I read this book but I could absolutely empathize with what these characters were going through. All of John Green's books will forever have a special place in my heart but this one was my first and it still resonates the most with me. This was my first re-read of the book since I read it when it ori
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Too much teenage angst for me, and I couldn't relate to the characters
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Not quite as good as The Fault in Our Stars but definitely a close second. More soon.
Sep 17, 2008
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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